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...Democratic National Committeeman Charles Sawyer was defeated in the gubernatorial primary in 1934 by Tree Surgeon Martin Luther Davey. Davey-"the best dressed Governor Ohio ever had," a good political showman but an administrator repeatedly charged with inefficiency or worse-has long impressed Democrat Sawyer as a grievous mistake. This year he ran against Governor Davey again in the Democratic primary. Helped by Labor, which disliked the Governor's interference in strikes, methodical Democrat Sawyer eliminated picturesque Democrat Davey, 449,000 to 419,000. Meanwhile, Senator Robert J. Bulkley, with just one "my good friend'' from...
...mountains, have listened to Nazi oratory and fallen under the spell of Adolf Hitler's pan-Germanism. Ninety percent of them voted as a unit for Konrad Hen-lein's Sudetendeutsch Partei in the local elections. Nothing unites a group like a grievance and Henlein's grievous story is as follows...
...laying of the corner stone of a building that will not only surpass in its splendid proportions any other that has been erected for us in the two hundred and seventy-seven years of the life of Harvard University, but it will also fill a long felt and grievous want, for it will furnish a place where our students can make the best use of every volume helpful to their education; a home for the treasures of learning and literature that have accumulated here in the course of generations, making those treasures accessible under ideal conditions to scholars and investigators...
...SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE NAMED FOUR AUTHORS: DR. CHARLES A. TOMPKINS, MISS GRACE WASHBURN, DR. MATHEW WINTERS AND MYSELF. THE CONTRIBUTION OF EACH WAS INVALUABLE AND VITAL TO THE WHOLE UNDERTAKING; SINCE SCIENCE IS ADVANCED ONLY BY THE SEEKING OF THE TRUTH THIS ERROR SEEMS GRIEVOUS TO ME. IT IS UNFAIR TO THE CO-AUTHORS IN THAT IT DOES NOT GIVE THEM DUE CREDIT AND PLACES ME IN A POSITION WHERE I MAY BE MISJUDGED. AS A TEN-YEAR TIME READER I FEEL CERTAIN THAT YOU WILL BE GLAD TO CORRECT THIS FALSE IMPRESSION...
...proper owner, Joseph. Texan Maverick relished it so much that he requested a report on the 40 Government Printing Office employes who have the awful job of reading the Congressional Record out loud to each other every night. In a solemn rejoinder the Government Printing Office listed other grievous blunders its proofreaders had caught. Sample: a speaker recently mentioned Bancroft's ghost. "Banquo," said the report, "was the party referred...