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...hand, too secretive about his technical developments and, on the other, too attentive to publicity and commercialization. They say that the scientific use of hydroponics should be to learn more about the physiology of plants, that its commercial possibilities are not proved, that it is unsound to compare water-grown with soil-grown crops on the basis of acre for acre yield...
...holding the Election of December 12, the nation-wide census of the Soviet Union taken last year would have come in handy, except that the Soviet Government recently rejected this immense fruit of statistical labor in toto, announcing that it was "grossly unsatisfactory and based upon clearly unsound statistical practices.'' Nonetheless every Soviet editor was busy preparing to announce on December 13 that some 100,000,000 Russians have voted -census or no census, pencils or no pencils, pulp or no pulp...
...committee has rapidly expanded. By February, its chairman is better fitted to deal with class affairs than anyone else living in the Yard. At that time he is thrown into the discard because of an election of a class president, a position that today is both meaningless and unsound. It seems absurd to cast out an executive trained for the position in favor of a person "democratically" chosen in an election in which more than half the voters do not know for whom they are voting...
...Tokyo the younger, more fanatic school of Japanese militarists fumed last week that their Empire ought to defeat Soviet Russia first, objected that the whole concept of dealing with Nanking before Moscow has been settled is strategically and politically unsound. This Japanese younger school sees Stalin as ultimately behind Chiang and wants to make an end of half measures, but Japanese "Liberals" like the Premier see more wisdom in taking any number of delicate bites at the Chinese cherry. If now Generalissimo Chiang, should really hurl China's whole force against Japan, with Russian cheers behind him, the bedseat...
Does the NLRA abridge AP's Constitutional guarantee of freedom? "We hold that it does not," ruled the Court. "We think the contention not only has no relevance to the circumstances of the instant case but is an unsound generalization. . . . The Act... does not require that the petitioner retain in its employ an incompetent editor or one who fails faithfully to edit the news to reflect the facts without bias or prejudice. The Act permits a discharge for any reason other than union activity or agitation for collective bargaining. . . . The restoration of Watson to his former position...