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Sponsored by the Debating Council, the trial will enable students to gain a practical insight into political affairs of the day, and will be conducted in a serious vein. To make the atmosphere more real, the Lowell Common Room will be lighted with special spotlights and arranged so as to resemble a courtroom...
...severest critics grumbled approval. "I assume when Richberg says price-fixing should end." said Senator Borah, "that he means it shall end. If so. the importance of his statement cannot well be overestimated. When you put an end to price-fixing, you have cut the jugular vein of monopoly...
Replied Chairman Baker, in true Hooverian vein: "Any extended system of Federal relief, however necessary, is attended by dangers..... It is our eager hope, as we know it is yours, that soon the entire burden of relief may be returned to local shoulders. . . . We venture to hope that this winter will see us past the edge of the crisis...
...called "the American dream"-that state of spiritual somnambulism in which all men were to have an equal chance in a brand new world. Like most patriotic U. S. citizens, Author Adams regards this idealistic belief as the essential promise of his country. Last fortnight, in more realistic vein, he described one of the tragic fulfilments of the U. S. dream. Soundly documented and popularly written America's Tragedy traces U. S. sectionalism from its colonial beginnings to the aftermath of the Civil...
...hysterics which hinder any chances for the governorship that the G.G.P. possesses. A man of force and sincerity, Mr. Macy possesses the unfortunate characteristics of stubbouness and suspicion. He is imbued with the idea that he must carry on in the Hughes and Theodore Roosevelt vein of reform and has selected utilities as the animal which will bring him fame. Aside from the fact that this issue has no live interest today, it has given him two unfortunate ideas. The first is that the new deal should not be discussed in any form during the campaign. The second is that...