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...charge leave much to be desired in their enforcement of the new rulings. Students who had not registered were admitted to the recent examination for Reading Knowledge of French. Registration blanks were carelessly distributed by the proctors to all who were without the proper identification, so that the boldest fraud could have been carried out with impunity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACKSLIDING | 9/27/1932 | See Source »

...Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Lobbyist Taylor saw overseas service, has four battle clasps with a silver star citation. His greatest feat was putting through the first Bonus bill in 1924. He carries a cane, wears a stubbly blond mustache, has an eye that pierces the boldest Congressman. His salary is $6,000; he earns it and more. His boast is that one word from him to Legion headquarters and a deluge of hundreds of thousands of letters and telegrams will pour in on a balky Congress. He picks hostile Senators and Representatives for legionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Again, Bonuseers | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Such was the biggest, best & boldest promise made last week by small, dapper Don Carlos Guillermo Davila whose recent coup d'ètat set up Chile's new Government (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Progressive Socialism | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...result of this last finding, Counsel Seabury thrust the boldest forensic stroke of his inquiry: "I say the Mayor of this city cannot buy stock or hold stock in a company that has city contracts. It is ground for removal, and it has been so held, and it is so provided in Section 1.533 of the City Charter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Walker to Roosevelt | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

Long before Richelieu wound his armies through the Valtelline or Champaigne thrashed his first brush across a canvass an equally famous man cast his shadow on the history of England. Becket was a soldier who became the greatest archbishop of his time and faced the boldest king that England knew. And for all this he died, slain in his own Cathedral. But one doesn't really know Becket until he has left his histories and turned to another of the arts. A poet has left behind a picture of him as clear and brilliant as the painter's Richelieu. Tennyson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/3/1932 | See Source »

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