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...name in every event except the dive and breaststroke, while the Terrier star will be limited to just three events. Silverman, the other outstanding B.U. natator, may give some trouble to Walter S. White '36, Leventritt's running mate in the breaststroke, but should not threaten the Crimson record-breaker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Swimmers Confident Of Swift Ducking For B.U. | 1/26/1934 | See Source »

...painless penalism pay as large returns as the idealists would like us to believe? Anyone reading in the newspapers of football games in which notorious gangsters and murderers play of sunny autumn afternoons, may well be led to wonder. Of course, if there is a chance that the law-breaker will reform, once shown the error of his ways, the state ought spare nothing to show them to him. But in a country where a large portion of crime is committed by mental defectives, repeaters, and good business men like the famous Al Capone, there seems to be much unwarranted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHINTZ CURTAINS | 12/9/1933 | See Source »

...week at the General Assembly in Edinburgh a new Moderator was elected. Rev. Dr. Lauchlan MacLean Watt of Glasgow Cathedral. He presided over the Assembly while delegates disapprovingly discussed a proposal to unite with the Church of England, and while one of them called Scot Ramsay MacDonald a "Sabbath-breaker" for holding "more Cabinet meetings on the Lord's Day than any one of his predecessors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Edinburgh at Columbus | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...honor of the U. S. Government was dragged through the dust last week and its good name trampled on the London streets. Even at home President Roosevelt was flayed as a breaker of contracts who had sullied his nation's integrity before the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Honor & Gold | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...them for a year as Director General. Labor? Senator McAdoo had raised rail workers' pay $875,000,000 back in 1918. Agriculture? Senator McAdoo, as its first chairman, put the Federal Farm Loan Board on its feet. Deficits? Senator McAdoo, in the Treasury, had piled up a record-breaker of $14,000,000,000. Bonus? Senator McAdoo, as head of the War Risk Insurance, had written policies for more than $35,000,000,000. Reconstruction Finance Corp.? Senator McAdoo had headed War Finance Corp. after which R. F. C. was patterned. Against such massed omniscience few Senators could prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The West & Washington | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

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