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...criticism. The unnecessarily violent controversy has already made inroads upon the morale of Norfolk, and thrown a specialized and non-political institution into the quagmire of partisan dispute. That a technical prison investigation should be conducted by an auditor is inappropriate enough; but that the newspapers and public should consign it to the limbo of ward politics is grave injustice to a public servant whose honesty, ability, and usefulness to the state have never before been questioned...
...metal framework of which was completed last week in the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron, Ohio while a delegation from Macon, Ga. waved flags. The Navy has been approached by prospective purchasers of the Los Angeles (prominently mentioned: Chicago World's Fair) but manifests no desire to consign the ship to unpracticed hands...
...days after Alumni Day, signed a pledge rigorously to abstain from "packing"?i. e. signing up their prospective members before the annual official calling week?a perennial campus scandal. The Yale Daily News pointed out that the fraternities did well to sign a pledge: one false step might "consign them to unenviable and irreconcilable doom...
...uncertainties. . . . The leaders of business enterprise are exercising every resource of ingenuity and hard work to eliminate waste and inefficiency. That the forces thus set into motion are now turning toward a new and prosperous era is indicated by a study of past business cycles. Miserable creatures, I consign you to a watery grave. Your doom is sealed...
...agent pursued his conquest, went in for details. He heard further from trusting lips that because Manhattan Customs examiners searched only one in ten cases of goods on their piers, Mile Salzmann & friends would ship nine cases of watches, one case of earthenware or bronze pieces, consign the whole shipment as undutiable earthenware and bronze. For their plan to succeed and the dummy cases only to be searched, corruption of some of the Manhattan Customs examiners was obviously necessary...