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After the compliance director, Mr. William H. Davis, had exhausted every seductive mannerism of voice, pleading and gesture, to get cleaners not in compliance with the price-fixing provisions of the code to comply, and all to no avail, two of the writers' clients, Abarbanell Bros. Inc. and Sterling Cleaners of Chicago were called to the platform before the director to answer to charges of non-compliance against them. The writer accompanied them and the compliance director merely stated in substance. "Now, Mr. Breakstone, you and I are both lawyers, and it will do no particular good...
...this elusive quality which makes or breaks governments and determines the characteristic spiritual color of a period. Many words have been wasted deciding just what this thing called public opinion is and how to find out where it is moving at any particular time--all to very little avail. Of recent years there has grown up an interesting barometer of opinion that, so far as I know, has attracted little attention. This is the common garden variety of movie, Genus Americans Ordinaris...
Surely those few alumni who haunt the Yard periodically could be allowed free use of the reading rooms without benefit of examinations or undersecretaries, who think in terms of theses merely, and cannot catch the higher tones of courtesy. If courtesy will not avail with the officials, perhaps expediency would carry a firmer point. For at a time when the alleged necessities of economy are estranging the after dinner element in Widener's clientele, an enterprising bureaucracy with the instinct to survive would do well to make some new, influential, and yet inexpensive friends...
...speech, "Ladies and Gentlemen, and Mr. Toastmaster." He went on to explain that he was a student himself; he was learning to be a college president. He claimed that he had attempted a correspondence course in "What every young college president should know," but it had been of no avail, he was still new to the job. The President told of a professor that he had met at Oxford. This professor believed that if the American college professors had as much power as it was claimed, they should move to Europe, and do nothing more than draw their salary. President...
...enrolled. But he had borrowed textbooks for just this occasion. When the Examination began, he propped said books upon his desk and plied away prodigiously, without interruption, for some fifteen minutes. Tiring of the copyist's art, he then began peering at his neighbors' efforts. To no avail. After ten minutes of futile endeavor, he collected his belongings, strode to the door, and handed in his work. As he prepared to leave, the proctor called him back. Slightly perturbed, he returned, and stood, looking. "You have not signed your bluebook," the menial said. And that...