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Franklin Roosevelt sitting in his study, was less than human if he did not smile. Nature, which allowed the cotton farmer 170 lb. for his average acre during the ten years preceding 1933, was about to bestow a bountiful 223 lb. per acre, equal to 151 S's, highest yield in U. S. history. Reasons: Abandonment of less productive acres in favor of cash benefits; scientific seed improvement. Results: The price of cotton had tumbled from about 12? last spring to 10?, cotton farmers' loud cries of "Do something!" were resounding in Southern Congressmen's ears...
...Pope in the White House," earned for Al Smith a Catholic martyr's crown. Year after his defeat he received the University of Notre Dame's Laetare-Medal, an award seldom given a politician and the highest honor the Catholic Church in the U. S. can bestow upon a Catholic layman. At Castel Gandolfo last week arrived Al Smith, on the pilgrimage which every good Catholic hopes to make before he dies...
Concluded indignant Dr. Kanner: "Time alone will tell how many more feebleminded, illegitimate, neglected children this group of released patients will in the future bestow on a Commonwealth that can do nothing but look on and pay the penalty for the indiscriminate habeas corpus release by its courts of justice. . . . It is up to psychiatrists to give better understanding to lawyers and judges...
...Fishbein had developed paralysis of one side of his face. Wrote he in his imitation Pepys' Diary in the A. M. A. Journal: "It seems strange to see one side of the countenance so cold and fishy. Belike it would be well to save this appearance to bestow upon the quacks." Specialists assured Dr. Fishbein that ''sooner or later" he will recover...
Perhaps the first consideration that comes to mind as a possible way of dealing with the vast over-application is to build another House. But even if a fairy god-father could be found to bestow his largesse at a moment's notice, adding a House hardly seems to offer a solution. For if a bad depression after the current economic boom should occur, the possibility of saddling the University with an unfilled "white elephant cannot be considered remote." Only a few years ago the College was unable to rent a considerable number of rooms in the Houses as they...