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...requests for the tax reports of different corporations. Position. It remained for the leaders to choose their positions on the field. Field Marshal Simmons offered to give battle first in the administrative provisions section along the barren ground of Flexible Tariff Ridge where could be no loot to deter greedy Democrats from fighting wholeheartedly with the enemy. It was a clever opening, but Generalissimo Smoot did not hesitate to accept battle there...
...Jewish youth playing ball was fatally stabbed by Arabs. Police attempting to deter his funeral procession from the Moslem quarter clubbed 28 Jews...
...Senate sit 55 Republicans elected by the people. A majority, they control Senate committees, frame legislation. A Republican vice president sits upon the rostrum. Republican James Eli Watson leads the Senate. These facts did not deter Louis Kroh Liggett, drug tycoon, Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts, at a G. O. P. clambake at Fall River, in analyzing the Republican defeat in Massachusetts last year as follows...
Lake Geneva is fed by Switzerland's snows and icy springs. But its chill did not deter Corry Liebbrand, 21, plump Dutch girl, from wading in at Lausanne early one morning last week. She stroked away westward. All that day she swam, all that night. She was lost for hours from accompanying boats. On she swam. The next evening she reached Geneva, 37¼ miles from her starting place. She is the only person ever known to accomplish the feat. Last year fat Georges Michel, channel-swimming French baker, attempted it, had to give...
...also feel that if there is no such pronounced public opinion sufficient to deter future offenses against good taste and the fair name of Harvard, such an opinion among undergraduates and alumni should be created under stress of such an article as was recently published in the Lampoon and sanctioned by its outgoing as well as incoming president. The editors of the Lampoon, responsible for such an article, should be made to feel not only that it injures the character and standing of the Lampoon itself to use its columns for the publication of articles in such bad taste...