Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named as the most popular beverage, when Petty is universally regarded as the favorite artist, we cannot but feel there are evil forces afoot in Nassau. Something, as "favorite-dramatist" Shakespeare once said, is rotten in the state of New Jersey. Certainly the football set-up is not to blame. Coach Crisler came into his share of the boodle and Captain Constable was rail-roaded into several offices with vote reminiscent of the Roosevelt landslide of '32, but we'll venture to lay odds that while the football set-up may have chosen Petty as favorite artist it never chose...
That the stress and strain of modern living is to blame for this increased incidence of insanity, Dr. Clarence Orion Cheney of Manhattan, the Association's retiring president, seriously doubts. "As early as 1734.'' he told his colleagues in St. Louis, "stress and strain of modern life was given as a cause of mental illness." Dr. Cheney declared there is more insanity now simply because more people live long enough to go crazy...
...should not blame the Councilmen of Government for setting up their booth on the lawn outside University Hall. This is certainly the time and the country for action by the flying wedge, and one man's pressure is as good as another's. We have groups to raise the tariffs, groups to lower the tariff, groups to make us eat sugar, and groups to make us drink less alcohol. We have groups to remove the Indians from Oklahoma and groups to give New York back to the Indians. And now comes the most courageous of them all: the Council...
Outside the farm problem, he has few interests except the Republican Party and his own ancestry, which he traces back through 300 years of pioneer U. S. farmers. So regular a Republican is the Iowa Senator that, whereas most agricultural leaders blame much of the farmer's woe on tariff walls, he declares himself "just like William McKinley" on that issue...
...fiftyish, greying, handsome. New Hampshire-born of his family's eighth generation in this country, he went early to work for Harris, Forbes & Co., became its president in 1930. Now out of investment banking, he takes up his time with golf, directorships, an occasional reorganization, lays the blame for his partial leisure upon the SEC and "a man named Roosevelt...