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With virtually no bait remaining to induce businessmen to accept codes, and no force to compel them to do so, NRA now exists as a skeleton statistical organization whose chief job is to look up facts & figures to prove how good conditions were under the Blue Eagle, how bad after the Eagle fell to earth...
...resourceful businessmen borrowed their reason for having a fair this year. It was to represent, approximately, "four centuries of progress" dating from 1542 when Portuguese Navigator Cabrillo's ships entered the harbor. More realistic were San Diego's two main inducements to hold a fair: 1) to bait ten million tourists into the city before Armistice Day; 2) to put to some practical use 1,400-acre Balboa Park and the many permanent neo-Hispanic buildings by the late Bertram Goodhue left over from the Panama-California Exposition of 1915-16.* Accordingly, the citizenry passed...
...part in the competition for places on the sophomore and junior teams in the Hioks Prizo Debate. The time was when according to the HArvard CRIMSON, "The tricks and traps of the logicians were as many as keenly appreciated as the generalship of an astute quarterback." Today even the bait of $50 in prizes cannot lure the wary undergraduate, fearful for his reputation as a man about town and socialite, out of his liar of sophistication...
...bait towards the concluding of this alliance, Professor Bemis advocated a cancellation of all war debts previous to November 11, 1918, but a payment of all those contracted, after the armistice...
Baron Inouye, whose purpose seemed to be to bait the Premier and his Cabinet, then made the supposedly superpatriotic and Emperor-worshipping Defense Ministers sweat by demanding: "Will the Army and Navy drive this theory out of Japan...