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...this support which the League should attempt to attain. The abolition of activities, such as the previously mentioned ones, would be the first step in the right direction. Those really interested should hold regular meetings and discuss among themselves the steps which are necessary to bring their purpose to fruition. Not only a sane consideration of the problems facing them now but proposals for the future when they have removed the cankers certainly supply the NSL with food for thought. It is in small meetings, away from the glare of the spotlight, where practical remedies can be suggested...
...member of the Cabinet, Governor of a State or mayor of a great U. S. city. There are only 20 Rhodesmen in Federal service; 195 are in law. But the rise of pedagogs to high government positions under the Roosevelt Administration may point toward the fruition of Cecil Rhodes's idea, for the biggest group of Rhodesmen (40%) have become educators. Eight are college presidents, 13 deans, one (John James Tigert) was U. S. Commissioner of Education from 1921 to 1928. Other distinguished Rhodesmen include Minister to Austria Gilchrist Baker Stockton, onetime Amateur Boxing Champion Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan...
...either hand, the red bulk of the buildings seem to forbid his premeditations; still the Vagabond envisions beyond them his day of country pleasures, sure of fruition, his sunlit dalliance, and his final quart of ale, dish for a Ring...
...stage front in the Washington political setting, Miss Secretary of Labor Perkins is doing her best to push her pet labor project through its last barrier, the House. This bill, known as the Black bill, makes a compulsory thirty-hour week for industry. In the process of its legal fruition it has fortunately struck a snag and there is every reason to believe sweeping changes must and will be effected in it, for as it is now constituted, this opus of Mr. Black is of serious portent to both labor and any economic renaissance...
...grand conspiracy of circumstances has made such return almost imperative. Without beer, it is obvious that the tutorial system can never come to any real fruition. Dining hall conferences might take on a rich new aspect of reciprocal frankness and loquacity were the reign of iced cocoa to be challenged. For the tutorial system was transplanted from its lush native environment into an unfamiliar desert where it has been cruelly desiccated and may soon be destroyed...