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...true indication of scholarship. Are tracts on scholastic minutiae essential, do they indicate which are the sheep and which the goats? Changing aspects of education and the requirements to satisfy its definition today, make one believe that the mere publication of some droning monograph on a miniscular crumb of knowledge, is hardly in keeping with modern ideas...
...look after the interests of this country first and quickly. If an agreement is reached we will then . . . have limits up to which we can arm, and it will be our duty to make ourselves as competent as we may up to that limit." To pacifists the only crumb of comfort was thrown by Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Britain's best-known and most articulate military strategist. Capt. Liddell Hart is the author of The Real War, the successor of the late great Lieut. Colonel Charles A'Court Repington as military expert on the London Daily Telegraph...
...paradox that a Presidential message which proposes to perpetuate revolutionary changes in the nation's monetary system should carry encouragement to conservatives, and yet that is the probable effect." Even the Republican Philadelphia Inquirer opined: "The President is for sound money. There is not a crumb of confidence ... for inflationists of the printing press type." But throughout the land many voices chimed in unison with Virginia's Senator Carter Glass, who remarked: "Humanitarians can find some excuse for a man who steals when he has to, but what excuse is there for stealing when there is no need...
...succession of satirical sketches Authoress Brokaw parades a long line of gilded caricatures: Social Arbitress Mrs. Townley, her chief rival Mrs. Topping, climbing Mrs. Crumb, many another socialite host & parasite. All of them dislike one another, exert themselves to the utmost to do one another down. Though Stuffed Shirts is not a continued story, the same stuffed shirts reappear from time to time, and if you are curious about their relationship a genealogical table at the end will make all clear. If you are a constant reader of the society page you may have some fun adventuring among Authoress Brokaw...
...Opposition [cheers]. More notably, His Majesty's Britannic Government had spread the Hoover generosity around the globe by offering to His Majesty's Indian and the Dominion Governments the same concessions which His Majesty's Britannic Government received [cheers]. Lazy, bankrupt Australia snatched the crumb. Proud, His Majesty's Government in the Union of South Africa said: "We have informed His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom that South Africa will not take advantage of the offer of the Mother Country to forego payments which we owe on our War debt." [Loud cheers.] Benito...