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...week. There the local champion to be defeated is Candidate Watson, large of stomach, small of eye, a smooth political mechanic. Watsonism in Indiana was considered even harder to beat than was the Willis phenomenon in Ohio. But two things, besides the Hooverizing of Ohio, happened last week to weaken Watsonism...
...political thunderbolt, craftily prepared, was hurled by Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, last week, in an effort to weaken the Opposition parties by discrediting their extreme left wing, the Ronoto or Farmer-Laborites. The vital import of the Ronoto is that its two Deputies give the Opposition a theoretical plurality of two over the Government parties, in the newly elected Diet (TIME, March 5) which will shortly assemble. Numbers: Opposition, including Ronoto, 228; Government, 226; and Independents...
Well might Scot MacDonald cry out last week against mind-moulding and throat-cutting which is sure to weaken the Labor party...
Fame and money thus won and honored weaken respect for the profession by its own professionals. There are good lawyers who stretch many a point of conscience to win cases. Justice Proskauer meditated on machinery to stop such stretching...
...other points, the Federal Council voted with comparative unanimity. Advocated by Dr. Charles Stedman MacFar-land, general secretary of the executive committee, sex education was encouraged by the council?"in view of the influences tending to lower the ideals of marriage, weaken the sense of marital, parental, and social responsibility and undermine the home...