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...trigger for political comfort. The anti-Tammany democracy would have done more wisely if they had supported LaGuardia and forgotten the specious McKee, for the Major will be too heavily saddled with his colleagues to undertake any really unpleasant reforms, and would thus combine safety for Roosevelt with boon for the metropolis...
...Walker also showed that the recent treasury order, permitting gold to be sold abroad at the world price, which was heralded as a boon to the mining companies, was also a step toward unemployment relief in that it increased by fifty percent the earnings of the small prospector and panner, who has hitherto been obliged to sell at twenty dollars announce while in Canada and other countries gold was bringing a premium as high as eighty-five percent. The small gold miner, however, is still harassed by the old law forcing him to divulge the source of his dust; this...
...Hill Academy near Philadelphia-and been handed an interscholastic prize by Princeton's President Hibben-he settled down to work at college, taking particular interest in economics. His presence caused Princeton little excitement. Only a few years before (Class of 1923) Princeton had had a Siamese-popular little Boon Pitrachat, who won his letter playing soccer. And even Siamese princes are not rare in the U. S.: Prince Swasti Pradish Svasti graduated from West Point; Prince Nondiyavat Svasti from Georgetown last June; Prince Tong Ti Kayou went to San Francisco in 1928 to attend high school and learn baseball...
...expected on the part of the commuters themselves may never appear. The plan on the whole is a judicious move: if it receives unqualified support from the students and tutors, and if it is fortunate in the selection of men it receives from the faculty, it should prove a boon and a basis for further advance; otherwise, it will quietly vanish away...
...will be a good thing for G. B. S., he wryly points out, to get an accurate picture of historical characterizations for once. Unruffled, Shaw agrees to join the venture if he can write in a scene, well prefaced, showing the evils of vivisection and the boon of vegetarianism. Critics will be a pair of idiots who believe themselves to be God and St. Peter...