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Often dollar-hostile, the newsorgans of Baron Beaverbrook veered around like weathercocks last week to crow the praises of dollars in general and of newly-arrived Ambassador Andrew William Mellon, dollar Croesus...
...broth theyselves then be fed wi' all the Milk o' Paradise" is a bit of Penny Pitches' Glastonbury wisdom that fits the odd-lot characters in Author Powys' romance. Glastonbury's broth begins to bubble & boil at the reading of the late Canon William Crow's will. To the disgust of the assembled Crows the old man has left his money to his secretary-valet John Geard, an evangelistic fanatic who can cure old Tittie Petherton's cancer pains by holding her in his arms. The stage is set for the struggle between...
Next day 62-year-old Ruby Laffoon, oldtime lawyer and judge, presented himself on the Capitol esplanade to take the Governor's oath. Tall (6 ft.), solid (180 lb.), with crow's feet around kindly eyes, big mouth and a booming bass voice, Democrat Laffoon had won last month's election in no small measure by his ability to put names to faces. He first met Grover Cleveland when as a lad he had marched into the White House with a paper which he doggedly refused to give to any one but the President himself...
...when Benjamin Disraeli became Chancellor of the Exchequer, the principle of Free Trade had become so popular in Britain that he had to curb his will to revive protection. Successive Gladstone ministries made Free Trade the battle cry of the great Liberty Party. By 1879 a Liberal economist could crow: "The British tariff no longer contains within it one solitary shred of protection...
...entire regatta was under the direction of Stewart French '28, sculling coach. For the last two days members of the University have been racing for minor titles, yesterday's contest being the only one in which outsiders were permitted to enter. William Raines, M. I. T., crow coach, was the referee of the senior singles race...