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McKellar accused Williams of being a Communist sympathizer, a waster of government money (particularly in NYA), and unqualified for the job. Soon McKellar produced a letter from a clergyman charging that Williams, onetime student for the Presbyterian Ministry, had "renounced the Divinity of Christ." Then Williams' religious and political beliefs got a going-over. The Committee rejected his nomination...
...sort which do not make news. For the Government as a whole is run a great deal better than the citizenry knows. Mistakes, hard names, quarrels make more headlines than peaceful progress. Any Congressman could make the front pages any day by standing up and calling Harold Smith a waster and a no-good. But when, at the end of his Appropriations Committee testimony, Alabama's Joe Starnes said, "I think you are doing a swell job, Mr. Smith," nobody bothered to report...
...tutorial system, almost by definition, depends on intense interest both from faculty and students. The first is often watered by lack of good men as tutors, small interest by certain Departments, and even a remnant among some professors that the system is new-fangled and a time-waster. Young instructors feel often that they are wasting time on tutorial which might better be given to their own research and scholarly work toward promotion. On the other hand, student interest has not always been overwhelming; dull sessions have discouraged work, and the absence of any sanctions has permitted laxity. Many...
This all must have happened because some anonymous South Shore brains have recently come out with something that smells of Lampoon influence: The Business School Bugle. The editors of this weekly paper-waster have kept their identities well concealed, because, as they themselves boast, "(We are) disapproved by the President, but not by the Fellows of Harvard University...
...rally, Richard M. Russell '14 termed his opponent in the mayoralty campaign, Mayer John W. Lyons, a "waster, libeler, and slanderer," and called upon the voters to save Cambridge from "bankruptcy and ruin." Lyons recently lost a $12,000 libel suit to John D. Lynch whom he had libelously attacked...