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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a group of Chicago aldermen decided that there had been too many tag days in their city. They planned a reductio ad absurdum. At one session of the City Council they got their drowsy colleagues to ordain tag days for the following: The Brewers' & Bartenders' Union; Tom, Dick & Harry, unemployed; ex-King Alfonso;* the Chicago White Sox (which has lowest standing in the American League). When the drowsy aldermen discovered how they had been tagged, the ordinances were revoked...
...Cabinet of Five"). In 1925 he was elected its vice president-and in Switzerland the vice president is customarily elected president the following year. Thus Dr. Haberlin was president in 1926, vice president again in 1930, is president today, may become vice president again, president again, and so ad infinitum...
...report in the form of a letter to Bishop McConnell. Just before the publication of both reports, the most painful evidence of the divergence between the Federal Council and the Hays organization was provided when Carl Elias Milliken, onetime Republican (1917-21) Governor of Maine, resigned from the ad- ministrative committee of the Federal Council. Impressive, 53-year-old Baptist Milliken, onetime president of the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, has been secretary of the Hays organization since...
From the same Latin parents (ad and verto) come "advertising" and "adversity.'' Last week 2,300 disciples of the former heard how their noun may do much to drive from the land its unwelcome brother. Depression has brought advertising its problems, as it has to every other industry. Clients, frantically endeavoring to save money, are very apt to curtail advertising expenditures. Smart campaigns which in normal times would bring in great results may strike against locked purses and collapse. So an unusual gravity pervaded the convention in Manhattan last week of the Federation of America. But, after heeding the many...
Harvard, dear, old, trustworthy Harvard, is planning a course for prison wardens. If this is not "reductio ad absurdum" to the limit, we are at a loss to understand what it is.... Just what degree will be awarded at the conclusion of this work in higher education is not as yet suggested but very likely it will be something imposing like "B. B. R." meaning "Bachelor of Bum Rehabilitation...