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...obscure for him to explore. The U. S. Bureau of Efficiency is his legislative child. But in the confusion of Senate debate, Senator Smoot gives no hint of his great influence. His voice is thin and quarrelsome. Senatorial badgers easily fluster him. He tries to smother them under a blanket of indisputable statistics, only to scold them for their mockery of his "facts...
Collective nominations have been made for the four Senior offices in the organization, namely, president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer. The men who have been placed on the blanket list of nominations are as follows: W. C. Bidlack '30, C. G. Chase '30, W. McK. Dunn '30, E. D. Emigh '30, W. M. Randol '30, James Roosevelt '30, Donald Scott '30, and C. M. Underhill...
...positive value in get-togethers of this type is accepted rather more restrainedly now than it was just after the war, during the blanket enthusiasm for every sort of co-operation from the Farmers' Milk Exchange to the Melting Pot. Certainly there is pleasure and prestige to be had through such associations as the National Student Federation; the profit derived therefrom must be a general and genial entity. Without executive power, which no one desires to grant it, the recommendations of the organization through its committees remain merely advisory and the whole advantage of the discussions boils down...
Though his student audience began to mutter at such blanket flaying of all Chinese, forthright, Marshal Feng pressed straight on with his speech, smashing home each point with a sounding fist blow upon the rostrum...
...Coleridge of H. M. S. Durban radioed to the Associated Press as he steamed toward the Panama Canal and Bermuda: "I should be obliged if you would note that all press reports concerning his Royal Highness Prince George during the visit are without foundation and are unauthorized." Seemingly this blanket statement was intended to smother an A. P. story that H. R. H. had split his trousers in Santa Barbara, while performing the "varsity drag...