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...therefore assume that this word appeared in your magazine in connection with Camden-the home of 118,700 honorable and respectable mothers, daughters and sisters as well as fathers, sons and brothers- as a result of a grievous oversight on the part of your proofreaders and your editorial staff...
Labor. Commissioner Mahaffie also knows that many a railroadman hoped that the 15% rate increase would not be granted, but that by public appeal the nation and its legislators would be awakened to the carriers' grievous condition. If it were shown that rates could not be upped, that costs could not be reduced, then the public might realize that only one remedy remained: wage reduction. Ex Parte 103 was to many an official less a plea than a strategem...
Outside of these two phases, I thought your article pretty nearly hit the nail on the head. So, while congratulating you on your article, I wish you at the same time would acknowledge these two grievous mistakes...
Roman Catholic Father Malachy Mulligan was summoned from his monastery to an Edinburgh parish to teach a slipshod congregation how to chant plain song. Across the street from the church were two grievous eyesores: a Church of England edifice placarded with snappy ads for religion, and the Garden of Eden dance hall. Of the two, the Garden of Eden was slightly more offensive to the Catholic priest. Father Malachy, meeting the Anglican parson on the street and becoming involved in theological argument, became so annoyed that he promised to perform a miracle: he would cause the Garden of Eden...
...Pershing story begins 14 years ago this week (May 10) when the General, aged 57, arrived in Washington from Texas to be put in command of the A. E. F. He long felt that the U. S. had made a "grievous error" for not doing something about the German invasion of Belgium. Reiterated throughout his book are complaints against a stupid bungling War Department which on the eve of War had on hand for issue only 1,500 machine guns, 400 field guns, 150 pieces of heavy artillery, 55 out-of-date airplanes. The Army's own General Staff...