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...until the AAA becomes almost all-embracing in scope, and affects people in ways other than their productive capacities. Thus the AAA, which by its nature must be relatively static, and based on supposed fixities of population, among other things, runs afoul the tendency of urban unemployed to flock to rural areas where they expect to make some sort of living. Where then is the solution unless the government buys up "surplus" land...
...Hungarian-born Lutheran who during the past three years had a congregation near Pittsburgh. He arrived in Manhattan last June to shepherd a congregation of 160 families which has no church of its own. With some cash and the backing of the Lutheran Board of American Missions, Mr. Sathmary & flock made ready to buy one. Of 56 replies to their advertisement, eight offered to sell apartment houses, one a saloon. Mr. Sathmary's building committee began a painstaking tour of inspection of the other...
When last spring it was announced that Dick Harlow of Western Maryland was coming to Cambridge to be Harvard's football Moses, it was also noised about that he had received fall permission from Bill Bingham to bring a whole flock of hand-pieced. Across to aid him in the trip to the Promised Land, Prominent among these was one J. Neil Stanley former head coach at Delaware, who took over control of the second most important part of the machine, the Freshman squad...
...That the secretariat had muffed the preparation of a mailing list of "representative clergymen" was revealed not only by the Eaton incident but by a Kansas City preacher who announced that twelve copies of the letter had reached his church, one for every pastor who had ever tended the flock. That President Roosevelt himself had made a serious political mistake in ever having the invitation for "counsel and advice" sent out seemed pretty much of a fact last week. Instead of the mild, private benisons which he might reasonably have expected, the President has publicly received during the month...
...sole purpose of evading them. Thus escape might appear unnecessary from a routine that is pleasant in itself. But even the best of studies eventually cloys the palate. And in general a fortnight's diversion only whets the intellectual appetites. Harvard is the only shepherd to drive home his flock in the middle of New Year's week. Two full weeks at Christmas-time, including as they would the additional week-end, would be a most welcome extension and at the same time a most conservative allowance...