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...drives his own Buick fast, once had a bad smash on a slippery road in West Virginia. In 1928 he bravely campaigned for the Brown Derby though it hurt his political standing. In 1930 he visited Russia, returning with the warning that the U. S. had much to unlearn about the Soviet. Early this year he silenced a "favorite son" boom in his own behalf by declaring for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His reward was being made temporary chairman and keynoter of the Chicago convention. Despite his own blotchy record, he flayed the "Hoover-Grundy" tariff act. Most of his speech...
Declared Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, heretofore no Russian recruit: "An American entering Russia must unlearn a good deal. . . . I never saw such optimism. . . . If the stable government now maintained by the Soviet is continued, the U. S. will have to give serious consideration to negotiations looking toward recognition...
...candidates for the Fourth Estate, backed by their Pulitzer diplomas, expect their newspaper training in college to admit them without question to the offices of metropolitan journals. And each year editors find that the vocational journalism their reporters have learned does little more than give them something else to unlearn before they can begin the acquisition of news writing ability...
...Arabic characters because most of them already know how to write in Latin letters: But this obstacle does not exist for President Kemal, 80% of whose people do not know one letter of any alphabet from another. The President hopes that in two years his people, with nothing to unlearn, will have learned to express old sounds in new letters...
...other advocates of simplified spelling in the U.S. -namely, that of making a whole people unlearn the teachings of its childhood. Last week's issue of Science (news pamphlet for scientists) contained comment by Dr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist of the Smithsonian Institution(Washington, D. C). Said...