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...ability to march entirely on wheels. Slogging along on foot, an old style division does well to cover 18 miles a day. Last week the P. I. D. covered 326. When reports of its maneuvers have been studied at Washington, the War Department may abolish the old style division entirely, streamline the whole army in similar units if and when it can get the money to cover the prodigious cost...
...principal departments-Telephone, Telegraph and Broadcast, each with its own $7,000-a-year director. In Washington last week, Chairman McNinch announced that henceforth the seven-man commission would function as a single unit. Said he: "It is a cause of regret to the commission that the move to abolish the divisions automatically abolishes the directors...
...year, advancing to $30,000 by rapid salary raises. War and illiteracy will be extinct. Every family will have a $25,000 house. Pensions of $3,000 a year for oldsters will start at once. But none of I.I.U.R.A.'s benefits will be in cash. It will abolish money, substitute a new Utopian medium of exchange...
...would not banish age from the bench nor abolish divided decisions. It would not affect the power of any court to hold laws unconstitutional. ... It would not reduce the expense of litigation nor speed the decision of cases. It is a proposal without precedent and without justification. ... It is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America...
Because public pressure forced him to abolish fancy police escorts, Philadelphia's Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson snarled, "To anticipate possible complaints about noise made by the flapping of flags on city automobiles, it might be well to find some soft material to be used in the making of city flags...