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...engaged in a war effort in which we can have as our motto: 'Business as Usual' or 'Pleasure as Usual.' The Government propose ... to prevent the abuse of the wishes of the majority . . .by any small or selfish group. . . . Dog racing and boxing displays ... are com pletely out of accord with the true spirit of determination of the people in this crisis. . . . Personal extravagance must be eliminated altogether. ... I am certain that every member of the Cabinet will be prepared to [attend] the funeral of that person whom I hope we may now describe...
...built into the wall of her house. Several years ago, on its way to an exhibition in Brooklyn, the glass picture got shattered. To restore it, Artist Duchamp made a special trip to the U.S., pieced it together like a picture puzzle, found that the cracks improved the com position...
School officials carried on continuous tests to see how Progressive pupils com pared with traditionally educated ones. Final verdict was delivered last week by the State Education Department. A group headed by Assistant State Commissioner for Research J. Cayce Morrison and assisted by eminent educators of other States, having studied the experiment exhaustively for a year, reported...
Franklin Roosevelt's "old friend and neighbor" did not look like the operating' head of a big dyestuffs and camera com pany at first blush. His most famous previous jobs: 1) defense counsel (successful) of Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman in the scandalous 1921 divorce suit brought against her by her husband, the late New York Banker James A. Stillman; 2) representing Edward ("Daddy") Browning in the "Peaches" Browning 1926 separation action; 3) defense counsel (un successful) for U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Martin T. Manton against bribery charges...
...deformed foot registered at a Belgian inn, and, '"as soon as he reached his room . . . fell like a thunderbolt upon the chambermaid." It was George Gordon Lord Byron, "for whom foreign travel had a psychological significance which his traveling compan ions could not long ignore." His com panions: Dr. John ("Polly dolly") Polidori; his "querulous" valet, Fletcher; his sparring partner. Next afternoon they all set off for Switzerland via the year-old battlefield of Waterloo where Byron, an insatiable souvenir hunter, bought some scraps of old iron to send home...