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...unless he is properly fed on beef and beer," said the lewd but shrewd General John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough. As everyone knows, the U. S. Army gets no beer from the Government. As for the beef-very little of that can be bought with a daily per capita food appropriation of 35c. (The Navy is allowed...
Greater enrollments than ever per capita of population. "Everybody-not most everybody, but everybody-wants to go to college...
...doubting reader with such statements as "The use of liquor is no more natural than the use of opium," and then he lays the doubter flat with 38 impressive charts charting the wonders the 18th Amendment has wrought. All evils-new recruits for the army of drunkards, per capita consumption of alcohol, juvenile delinquency, crimes against chastity, arrests in disorderly houses, profanity, deaths and insanity due to alcoholism-have decreased since Jan. 17, 1920, one of them as much...
...York may be the biggest, Chicago the wickedest, Boston the dullest--but Detroit is the richest city in the United States. By a careful and crafty compilation of figures the Detroit Free Press shows that the individual income tax is largest per capita in the home of Henry Ford. It offers no numbers to illustrate what Detroiters do with their money after they have earned it, but one may presume that if the home town does not offer sufficient entertainment, they are at liberty to depart for points less wealthy and more amusing. Fortunately one does not have to remain...
...immaculate columns of the Times things would have been different; but everybody knew that the World's partisanship now and then ran away a bit with its common sense. Further perusal showed the analogies to be matters of fact-"seventh in area," "wealth $3,285 per capita," "eighth in rank as a coal producer. . . ." Where except in reference books, such as the Britannica, did the World expect Mr. Coolidge to obtain statistics if he insisted upon using them in his Colorado semicentennial address...