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...Here's some of the twelfth thousand of the New York Sewer'! Here the Sewer's exposure of the Wall-Street Gang, and the Sewer's exposure of the Washington Gang, and the Sewer's exclusive account of a flagrant act of dishonesty committed by the Secretary of State when he was eight years old; now communicated, at a great expense, by his own nurse". Martin Chuzzlewit...
...dispute the Governor's characterization of the "present conditions" relating to the enforcement of prohibition as scandalous. "Open and notorious violation," flagrant acts of corruption"--if these manifestations are not enough to warrant such a demand as Governor Miller makes, then we had better stop professing to be governed by law. One point in the message should appeal with special force to those who have objected to the Eighteenth Amendment as an invasion of State rights. If we are to leave its enforcement to the Federal Government it would require "an army of agents in every State," which "manner...
...many voters in the United States today consider the ballot but an immediate opportunity to express their personal feelings on this or that question which comes to the polls. A flagrant and disgraceful example of thoughtless vacillation in the use of the franchise is seen in the result of the recent vote of the town meetings of Massachusetts. Last year the inhabitants of nearly every town within forty miles of Boston voted "dry" by a large margin, when the question of prohibition was considered. On Monday these same towns polled not only a marginal plurality but in nearly every case...
Your writer displays not only a flagrant case of ignorance, but an entire lack of common sense in suggesting that, in as much as the American solider was handsomely cared for (?) during the war, our obligation to him ceases upon the signing of the peace terms...
...hoped that some of the more flagrant abuses of the old system will be eradicated when intercollegiate athletic contests are resumed. The whole array of paid coaches, trainers, scouts and other attendants ought to be cut down considerably and the number of games which involve traveling might well be reduced. These things have made college athletics unduly expensive in the past and have given all college sport the taint of semi-professionalism. If the system is not to be reformed, it should at least be improved. Boston Herald...