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News from Chicago indicates a rebirth of that soft and mealy-mouthed generosity which characterizes the American attitude toward crime. Perhaps the brevity of American indignation, the sole reason for every crime wave, results from a sympathetic feeling for the underdog, even after the public has been severely bitten by it, or perhaps this indifference stems from mere lack of intestinal fortitude...
...necessity for attending code hearings now being held in Washington, will prevent Hiram Mann, argumentative campaigner for the underdog, from giving his talk on "Rugged Individualism" before the Liberal Club tomorrow night...
Disappointed over its failure to break a 2-2 tie with the Graduates yesterday, the Varsity soccer outfit will enter the Yale contest on Friday as the probable underdog. Although the concensus is that the Bulldog power lies in the powerful offense of the veteran Eli forwards, Coach Walter Leeman of the Blue has stated that "the defense is the best part of the team...
...Underdog. Large among Odhams' assets on entering the newspaper business were two men. One was a grey, square Scot named John Dunbar, dour and extraordinarily shrewd. The other was a swart, stumpy Jew named Julius Salter Elias. Dunbar was made managing editor of the Herald, Elias the chairman and managing director. Rich Publisher Elias, no newsman, is one of the ablest businessmen on Fleet Street. He put John Bull on its feet following the downfall of its former publisher, the late, notorious Horatio Bottomley. Ambitious, he openly seeks a title, and he will get none so long as Scot...
...decided which is the Alpha and which the Omega of the theories, Laski, whose radical activities resulted in a hasty Hegira from this vicinity many years ago, sees the ultimate doom of capitalism--unless something unusual should happen, of course. He shows Marx's appeal to the underdog as the reason for this, an appeal outweighing Marx's theoretical inadequacies. He finds Russia to be the only country today in which a feeling of exhilaration can be detected. As a political theorist he places Marx in the top-most ranks...