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...What are the Hitlerites but human dust?" asked Leon Trotsky in a manifesto to German Reds. "Their vain chat ter about 'Social Fascism' . . . their empty imitation of real Fascism . . . should fill every German Communist with contempt...
Scientists have sought in vain a practical chemical preservative for newspapers. The New York Times prints 250 copies per day of its regular edition on rag paper for $100 per year for subscribers. The New York Public Library coats with thin Japan tissue every page of every paper in its files published since 1916. The Library of Congress keeps its 80,000 bound volumes in a room at 70° temperature and 40% humidity. Suggestion by Dr. Buck: photograph news pages in reduced facsimile on special long-lasting paper...
...undergraduates of Harvard at this convention, it might seem that the Harvard student's mind turns rather towards lighter subjects during vacation. But anyone who heard Kirby Page speak on the problems facing the youth of today would not feel that their "political emotions" were all in vain. The facts of overproduction, un-equal distribution of wealth, class enmity, unemployment, and disarmament, are not fully realized by college students. A statement such as Kirby Page made, that if some agreement concerning reparations is not reached within the year, Germany is likely to assume a dictatorship and renounce all her debts...
...Keeping Faith." As helpless as ousted Finance Minister Inouye last week was ousted Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, who looks as much like Theodore Roosevelt as a Japanese can and who has tried in vain for the past three months to win Japanese militarists to his "Peaceful Policy" respecting China and Manchuria...
...tricks that are vain...