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August Belmont & Co., made a vast fortune, kept a racing stable. The second August Belmont was known rather as a turfman than as a financier or railroad director. He put the horse before the locomotive. He is credited with having saved thoroughbred racing when it was at its lowest ebb in the East, after the repeal of the racing law in New York State. He was Chairman of ihe Jockey Club, founder of Belmont Park (famed Long Island track), owner of many celebrated horses?Rock Sand, Norman III, Tracery, Man o' War, Ladkin. These swift beasts wore his famed colors?...
...therefore, with much chagrin that those who hoped for the new era have watched the ebb of conservatism recently manifested both in England and the United States. Its political display is regarded as a mere sign Behind the political movement is seen an almost universal revulsion away from liberal tendencies. Intellectual freedom is endangered. It is feared that thought and the arts will succumb to the dulling influence of bourgeois ideals. Once more Babbitt goes about his daily lasks in great glee. He rubs his hands and beams genially Popular approval has placed its divine sanction upon the trinity...
...military forces of the United States have never been encumbered by a superfluity of brains, and at present the supply seems to be at a particularly low ebb. General Clarence R. Edwards has asked the Military Order of the World to oppose the federal Child Labor Amendment unless it carries with it a universal conscription provision. He also urged a large air fleet, which, he said, "is one way to safety while we are busy converting the soft, mushy, pacifists...
...numerous in parts which correspond to the temperate zones on earth. At the end of the cycle they gradually disappear again; and eleven years after the first cycle began, they start to reappear and proceed through the same process. In 1923 the sun spot cycle was at its low ebb, but spots are again beginning to appear and we may look for the maximum in five or six years...
...basis of these replies definite action in regard to discontinuing or reorganising the Memorial Hall restaurants will probably be taken in the near future, as the attendance at Memorial Hall is at an extremely low ebb, only 350 men eating regularly at the dining hall and less than 300 at the criteria...