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...Premier Aberhart's money was last week about as good as Albertans think Premier Aberhart is. Most merchants were willing to accept the certificates up to the total of their sales taxes, which Premier Aberhart had said were payable in certificates. Beyond that point Albertan merchants began to balk. Prosperity Certificates began appearing in Sunday collection plates and the Edmonton Journal asserted that only two of Edmonton's 218 stores were accepting unlimited quantities of scrip...
...Crimson only got one more hit off the offerings of the Jumbos' Izzy Harris. Deciding runs were scored by Frank Owen in the fifth when the umpire called a balk with a man on third, and in the seventh when Bilodeau sent a circuit smash down the left field foul line...
Last July he went to Washington as representative of several Western utilities who were trying to balk the Public Utility Act. He spied a comfortable little house on 38th Street in Georgetown, promptly rented it. Disliking solitude, he "thought it would be nice for some of the boys to live with me during the hot spell." Six Representatives moved in with Lobbyist Smith: Kentucky's Cary, Idaho's Clark, Ohio's Fiesinger, Nevada's Scrugham, New Jersey's Sutphin, Indiana's Pettengill. Lobbyist Smith never told "the boys" of his work, because "several...
...teachers of Cambridge, or of Harvard by itself, certain crucial questions will have to be considered and thoroughly deliberated. In the first place, does the nature of teaching, being in its higher forms essentially the giving of personal conclusions, allow of any regimentation? Dramatists' have been known to balk at the name of playwright on the grounds that it levels them with the cartwright and the wheelwright. Hence it is doubtful that teachers, every bit as sensitive, will allow themselves to be organized on the plebeian lines of labor...
...photographers, keenly competitive, set up their cameras at the fence. In an effort to spoil their rivals' pictures as the horses approached the jump, the Britons set off a "flare" bomb. The smoky explosion failed of its purpose and, instead, caused Golden Miller's $10,000,000 balk which occurred directly in front of the U. S. photographers' cameras. Their sensational pictures, which, the Express misleadingly published without comment, failed to show the cause of the mishap...