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...found the discarded note, ran with it to Pedro Albizu y Campos, president of the Nationalist Party of Porto Rico. That shrewd politico at once ordered photostatic copies of the letter. A political struggle for control of the island legislature was on, and here was a mighty club to wield. Natives might be made to believe that the Yanquis were plotting to kill them all. At any rate the point was worth clamoring about...
...will spend the first week in becoming acquainted with various University sources, and with "newspaper style." Shortly after, when the "Scoop book" is opened, they will be given greater opportunities for displaying initiative and ability in gleaning items of interest from among the chaff of commonplace material. Ability to wield a pen with some fluency is essential, but previous journalistic experience is not necessary...
...structure of Jewry and the Jewish Press in the U. S. may be expressed in generations. There is the proud old immigrant group, slowly diminishing, which lives strictly in the tradition of its fathers. Through it the great Yiddish language dailies (Forward, Day, Morning Journal) wield their power. A second generation (roughly preWar) shied away from the piety and solidarity of the oldster. To it the selfconscious, defensive Jewish weeklies address themselves. Many students profess to see now the beginning of a third generation, youthful and intelligent, proud but inquiring, race-conscious but dispassionate. For that group, and for inquisitive...
...book worth reading if nothing further were said. Next, the Bolsheviks are followed through their various vicissitudes with outlines of how these troubles were handled. Fortunately, the writer never allows himself to become enmeshed in the labyrinth of Soviet political structure but only considers the various commissions which wield the real power. For this reason his exposition is unusually lucid even if rudimentary...
...industry and finance. The International Chamber of Commerce now meeting in Washington is an instrument of the modern type for the manipulation of international matters as powerful as the official channels for foreign affairs. The importance attached to this conference is evidence of the increasing power which business interests wield in the creation of sound international relations...