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With the two-fold purpose of enabling amateur skiers to practice in fine country during the winter months and of giving racing aspirants a drilling ground, a new skiing club, known as the Schussverein, has been formed here. They have leased a large farm at Woodstock, Vermont through William Emmons...
...psychologist looks askance at the CRIMSON candidate. For how can one explain the inconsistencies in the man's character? Parents shudder at the proposition and advise their children to shun such torture. Roommates make up their minds that a black sheep has deserted the fold. And through it all the candidate alone remains serene. For him it is not torture, the others just do not understand. He delights in the scoops, he gloats over his interviews with celebrities and thrills to the click-clack of many typewriters at work...
...been espoused before but with little success by either party. President Taft in 1910 tried to punish the Western Insurgents by threatening to withhold "patronage," but the attempt was a boomerang. The Republican regulars tried it again shortly after 1912, but in 1916 welcomed their opponents into the fold...
...battle, he went ahead with his other foreign trade plans. George N. Peek, who got out of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration because he felt that the U. S. farmer would be the loser by Brain Truster Tugwell's plans for restricting production, was brought back into the Administration fold on his own terms. He agreed to head the Export-Import Bank founded to promote Russian trade. Later he was also expected to take command of two other unformed banks, one to promote trade with Cuba, the other, trade with the rest of the world...
...might have happened. The Anti-Roosevelt groups were certain that they would make gains on the next ballot. But the recess of several hours permitted a reorganizing of the battle lines. During this interval the New Deal was born in a deal that brought McAdee and Garner into the fold and made the necessary two-thirds...