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...crew; and as for the system of control, when we see a really big man, who can manage the situation, and keep all the "parlor oarsmen" in hand, let's grab him. But until we find him patience and confidence! DENISON B. Hell...
...Turning down the grab for extra pay', came the prompt reply; he was referring to a resolution demanding six months extra pay for discharged soldiers, defeated chiefly because Roosevelt himself echoed the spirit of the hour by declaring, 'We came here to put something in the Government, not to take something away from it'. All-American and all for America; non-sectional, non-political; and, when it came to something for itself, unselfish too. Truly, some convention...
Nobody knows what an "adequate" army is. How small an army we can maintain depends on how small an army we can induce each other nation to maintain. We can hardly achieve that end by this disingenuous grab at the principle of conscription, together with much talk of an altogether hypothetical "necessity...
...seems to me that of the first actions of the St. Louis convention are particularly significant. The delegates voted down the 'Grab Bill' to give every discharged soldier six months additional pay. This bill had been proposed in Congress as a political measure in order to win votes from the many discharged soldiers for its backers. It was entirely unnecessary, as the $60 bonus law gave all the aid that was needed to get a discharged soldier back on the job. By repudiating this bill, the Legion showed that it intended to keep to its newly adopted tenet of steering...
...relations, laws, and effects of one subject. At least it is not the present system's fault if he has not. The second insures a breadth of work most valuable, perhaps, to those to whom it is most distasteful. The third prevents the blind, haphazard plunging into the University grab bag for the first four courses which come to hand...