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...mayor from 1926 to 1930, he gained the technical knowledge indispensable to anyone whom the voters entrust with this measure of authority. His regime has seldom been called inspired, yet he emerged from office with clean hands, which in Boston may be regarded as somewhat phenomenal. If he returns he will find fewer dollars in the treasury and more mouths to be fed, but the judgement and sound practical sense which he has gained in many years of legal experience seem capable of regulating city expenditures with economy as well as humanity...
...avoided their best friends with squeamish grins, as though they had encountered their grandmother in a bar. No, they did not KNOW. This is the cue for the Hygiene Department. It has been saved the trouble and expense of disproving the common belief that Harvard men know too much. Entrust the subject to one who is not only well known in this field, but who is also in existence; unite the Hygiene and the Raised-Eyebrow Departments, and the latter will perish. Then perhaps you will not be able to tell a Harvard man anything. But until that millenium Vassar...
Said Chairman Plant: "The question of union recognition is not involved. We do not seek to abolish hiring halls. A major issue is that of selection of men- that is, who shall have the right to say to whom American ship operators must entrust their ships. Employers believe that the owners should have this right. To resume negotiations under current circumstances would be useless." This attitude Harry Lundeberg termed "arbitrary and unreasonable." Thus last week the situation remained the old poser: what happens when the irresistible meets the immovable...
...others that will promote social progress and bring the full benefits of civilization within the reach of every Spaniard. I intend to regain the prestige of Spain as a nation. I think that a military dictatorship will mean the co-operation of all sections of national life. We shall entrust efficient technical men with the administration, not politicians. My reorganization of the State will be based on a corporate system resembling Italy and Germany, preserving, however, traditional Spanish characteristics. My agreement with General Mola and the other leaders of the Revolution provided that the Revolution was not against the Republican...
...will be very proper to entrust this agency to the central organization of the Catholic action...