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...leaders to give up his summer trip into that disaffected territory lest unseemly scenes along his route cause him public embarrassment. Only crumb of comfort for the Administration and the Board: in his daily syndicated message Calvin Coolidge said: "It would certainly be fair and probably wise to defer judgment on the reported actions of the Federal Farm Board until the results are fully matured and they are in a position to reveal what they have done and why they did it. This board is so well supplied with hard-headed business experience that they are entitled to the presumption...
...other fellow, he cannot buy of them. If those who have the means would pay all their retail merchandise bills and in addition purchase what they need and can afford, a healthy commerce would quickly be created. . . . No one who has money now can afford to defer settling h's accounts...
...With this in mind I am able to declare that the American Government as a practical matter is disposed to defer to the views of the majority of those countries whose land forces constitute their chief military interest, and in the draft convention before us, to accept their ideas in the matter of trained reserves...
...radio in its possibilities. He further stated that he had just received notice from the Vitaphone Corporation stating that it would be necessary to delay his tentative engagement with them for some months, since their equipment was undergoing such radical changes every day that they had decided to defer all engagements until the machines could be more adapted to the new inventions which were constantly altering them...
...conflict with the usual custom the University football team will defer the election of next year's captain to mid winter, when the first meeting of Coach Horween and his squad since the Yale game will take place. The team picture likewise will not be taken until that meeting, which is expected to occur about January...