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...were never changed and never modified. I was given full confidence. ... I ever shall be grateful."-and of whom Vice President Charles G. Dawes said: "The country is beginning at last to take the measure of the Great War President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, and of the greatest Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker. They protected the American Army from political interference. They insisted that promotion should be on merit and let the best man win. And that's what made the American achievement possible." (TIME, Sept. 19). Certainly neither of these gentlemen is what Mr. Bratton...
...Navy is likewise a weapon of defense. We have a foreign commerce . . . outlying territory . . . long stretches . . . the richest cities in the world ... a large population . . . the greatest treasure ever bestowed upon any people ... an international duty of defending the Panama Canal...
...Recently the Mayor of the greatest city in America visited Europe and was honorably received on his tour everywhere by all except the diplomatic representatives of his own country. Our Ambassador to France . . . was represented by one Sheldon Whitehouse, who promptly put detectives on his [the Mayor's] trail to try and get something on this Mayor who was a member of Tammany Hall, a political body not in sympathy with the party in power here in our own America...
...fits the cheese industry, since grass-milk cheese is considered best. . . . "Farmers generally are just beginning to appreciate the fact that the dairy business is the most stable business in which they can engage. Present outlook indicates that in 1928 the dairy business of this country will receive its greatest impetus. The national consumption of cheese is increasing at the annual rate of about one-half pound per capita. This makes it necessary to increase production of cheese at least 40,000,000 pounds annually...
Coming from stock, known in Thuring-Tan musical circles during 150, years before his birth, J. S. Bach was the first great evolutionary composer of the family. Serious, systematic, rigid in form, and strictly classical in his compositions, with a profound religious faith. Bach was the greatest master who ever wrote polyphonic music. Although his age was a somewhat mechanical one, we find in Bach a great master of deep expression, often touching the romantic...