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...convinced that this is not an overstatement. Surely ours is a cause worth sacrificing for and living for and dying for if necessary. 'Though love repine and reason chafe, there came a voice without reply: 'tis man's perdition to be safe, when for the truth he ought...
...school affairs of San Antonio, Tex. are turbulent. They are so turbulent that the Board of Education has had three presidents in 14 months. San Antonio teachers, whose pay was cut 38% in 1932, chafe under a six-hour-a-day grind in classes, monthly salaries of $75 to $160. One board president ordered teachers not to attend public dances or drink alcohol. School buildings are in disrepair. San Antonio high schools are in danger of being dropped from affiliation with the State Committee on Classified and Accredited Schools because of overcrowding. Last fall San Antonio's teachers threatened...
Bosses. For the first time since he was born in a farmer's hut in Oriente Province 36 years ago, full-blooded Fulgencio Batista was without a boss to chafe him. His first boss was a tailor who apprenticed him at the age of 12. Batista now brags that before he quit a year later he could make a suit of clothes himself. Afterward he worked in a grocery store and bar, as a railroad fireman, engineer, conductor. Once he studied to be a barber. In the sugar boom of 1920, Cuba's Dance of the Millions...
...Democratic appointees ruled the Court and it was the turn of Whig-Republicans to chafe and roar. When Democratic Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, onetime slave owner, handed down his Dred Scott decision preserving Western territories to slavery despite the will of Congress, a rising Republican named Abraham Lincoln went up & down the land denouncing it, demanding that the President and Congress reverse it, calling for appointment of new, right-thinking Justices. As President, Lincoln carried his feud to the point of ordering an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney...
...Golf Association. Few of 1911 got rich, fewer still Author Tunis judged to have won "genuine distinction" (TIME, Sept. 14). Up for scrutiny this year stand 536 Harvardmen of the Class of 1912. The proud 1912 alumni plan the "greatest and most elaborate" 25th reunion yet staged in Cambridge, chafe to outdo Author Tunis' rumpled Class of 1911 in display and distinction. When the 1912 Reunion Committee met in Boston last month, the Boston committeemen sported cutaways, top hats and sticks to demonstrate that the local 1912 representation comprised elegant gentlemen not to be confused with Boston...