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Dunster House has made the most intelligent and satisfactory effort to unravel the annoying tangle. Here the tutors' table has been abolished, except for a weekly luncheon at which the necessary House business can be talked over. Doing away with this line of cleavage in the dining-room once and for all, Dunster finds that a significant amount of social contact is being developed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORSAKING ALL OTHERS | 4/25/1935 | See Source »

...girl at an expensive nightclub. Her first gilded performance, the high point of the show, is very amusing and there is no reason to worry with her. Since one can solve the story from here with the given facts, we shall leave the increasingly confusing action free to unravel itself on the screen...

Author: By A. A. B. jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/14/1935 | See Source »

...THERE ARE FIVE COMPELLING REASONS FOR THIS ACTION. ONE IT WOULD. . . ." An astounded UP editor who had watched this unsolicited opinion from a person unknown unravel before his eyes, sprang into action. To Tucson he flashed this query: WHO IS SENDING COLLECT ENDLESS OPINION ON GOLD? Back came the answer: SENDER OF COLLECT MESSAGE IS HERBERT HOOVER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Message Collect | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Printed along with this editorial was a communication to the effect that Mr. Frankfurter had stated in a recent interview that the simple virtues of honesty and public devotion are not enough to unravel the tangled skein of social and economic complexities. While it is difficult to disagree with this statement, the important fact is that leaders of the state must AT LEAST have as a FIRST prerequisite "the virtues of honesty and public devotion." And it certainly is not an honest act to rob the banks of their gold, to issue an edict depriving a man of his gold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dissenting Zealots | 10/26/1934 | See Source »

Felix Frankfurter, prominent member of the Brain Trust, said in a recent interview, that in these days the simple virtues of honesty and public devotion are not enough to unravel the tangled skein of social and economic complexities which are too tied up with intricate and technical facts to be solved on the level of feeling and rhetoric...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gospel and Code | 10/25/1934 | See Source »

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