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King that whole assembly [the House of Lords] down one or two streets in my division [constituency]. ... I denounce such plans for dealing with unemployment as humbug. . . . Humbug and downright cant...
...fifty dollars care Chungking laundry San Francisco stop refuse cover Manchuria too cold stop advice urge Stimson urge Italian embassy. Washington urge Mussolini not protest stop gravity situation exaggerated stop war put Japan on copper standard stop dispatch today states Harbin Chinese lose five hundred, Japanese ten stop Japanese cant hold out long that rate stop Chiang Kaishek probably in new capital stop advice look west of Nanking stop didnt know there was Chinese navy stop will wire all developments at intervals stop why not advise me earlier stop could have gone out on navy boats stop watch Japs Geneva...
...Government came into being during the War of 1812. By 1813 the expression had reached the Press where U. S. Customs officers were referred to as "Uncle Sam's Men." That year the Troy Post, apparently ignorant of Uncle Sam Wilson's initialed meat barrels, declared: "This cant name has got almost as current as 'John Bull.' The letters U. S. on Government wagons are supposed to have given rise to it." The Gazette of the U. S. (Philadelphia) in 1816 explained that a countryman, meeting a regiment of light dragoons, asked what...
...overtime Springfield scored twice, while the first year men, because of poor marksmanship, failed to force the nets. SPRINGFIELD HARVARD '34 Bishop. g. g., Johnson Peabody, e.p. e.p., Eagleton Pretka, p. p. Holsapple, Fields Reylea, 1d. 1d., Rogers Davidson, Roberts, Miller, 2d. 2d., Althouse, Clapp, Wilbur Thompson, Cant, 3d. 3d., Rabinovitz, Townshend Taylor, c. c., Levan, Topalian Fisher, 3a, 3a., Sise, Merrit, Merry Linton,2a 2a.,Lowe, Higgins, Reed Hubbard, la. la.,Housem Lewis, o.h. o.h.Lessig Townsend, l.h. l.h.,Lowery...
...active disbeliever in capitalist economics, Steffens is skeptical of them; thinks not only that business controls government but that politicians are venal by profession. His journalism might be said to have been more revelatory than reformist. His (implicit) advice: find the facts, clear your soul of cant...