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Asked about the possibility of his visiting the U.S.* he said: "I have no faith that I could do anything good for India by going to America. They would lionize people; they would listen to them, but they would go their own way. . . . It is difficult to wean the golden calf from the worshipers of Mammon...
...following day a different Harvard delegation will journey to Providence, where it will support the abolition of the fraternity system against Brown. This debate will also be broadcast, this time over Station WEAN. Harold M. Bailin '43 and Keith Symon '42 will be the Crimson speakers...
...racket of debt slavery practiced by storekeeping aviados. Vargas recently organized the Instituto Agronomico do Norte whose job it is to wean the siringueiros from their bad production and economic habits...
...rival to the Youth Congress, I. S. S. nevertheless proposed to speak more authoritatively for U. S. Youth, wean Youth from passing angry resolutions to sober discussion. Last week Author Christopher Morley's blonde daughter Louise (Bryn Mawr) started the ball rolling by introducing Mrs. Roosevelt at the I. S. S. conference. Up dashed an ink-black African and a swarthy Brazilian, presented Mrs. Roosevelt with a striped bedspread, a Brazilian student banner...
...Arsene-Henry's misfortunes began immediately after France's request for armistice. The Japanese Army spokesman in Canton said that if French Indo-China refused to "reconsider herself" on the matter of sending munitions by rail into China, the Imperial Army would "undertake to wean Indo-China away from hostility to Japan." M. Arsene-Henry, who understood the meaning of that "wean," who also well appreciates the classical Japanese conceptions of fact and fiction, flatly denied that any arms were going from French Indo-China into China (although two-thirds of China's war supplies have gone...