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...heyday of Hamiltonian federalism these protests from Lexington would have added to its considerable glory throughout the Small America of that time. Every pioneer and farmer would rise to the support of the Yankee patriots, every banker and broker would tremble with rage. But the sincere patriotism of those latter-day Minute Men of 1934 hits the Middle Western farmer, receiving regular handouts from the government, as a particularly sharp annoyance from some small-town Old-Dealers of the East. And the bankers, knowing from experience, what the Minute Men know from feeling, join chorus with Lexington...
Undoubtedly there will be amendments, but the audacity of the proposal in the face of Anglo-Saxon traditions of law and fair dealing in individual relations will bear examination. The labor unions in a political year are striving to get every advantage they can. This is the heyday of their power...
...over the world last week astronomers expectantly watched the sun. Close to the solar equator a few small sunspots appeared, lasted a day or so, disappeared -sparse and sickly survivors of a decade-long sunspot cycle whose heyday was five years ago. The telescope men were looking for first signs of a new cycle-vigorous black splotches in the neighborhood of 30° north and south latitude, with magnetic polarities reversed in respect to the spots of the dying cycle. They had been looking for months, might have looked for months more (for sunspot changes cannot be forecast like eclipses...
...last seaman on board a vessel which is patently enreefed, but many will be sorry that the Mercury has come to be such a vessel. Its function, basting the prosperous and needling the Rotarian, is outlived in time when Rotarians are impecunious and craven and the imbecilities of their heyday clotured by depression. The protuberances which the Mercury swatted have largely sunk back into the primeval slime from which they came; and those who liked to see them swatted have turned their minds to other things. But to identify the decline of the Mercury with the decline of Mr. Mencken...
...Yale Divinity School, and who will preach in the Chapel on November 26. And we were reminded of the fine legends with which Mr. Lucius Beebe was accustomed to clothe the Rev. Mr. Brown. According to this saga, Mr. Brown was an "Ecclesiastical Barnum," who brightened his heyday by acquiring a considerable skill in ventriloquism. It appears that it is never difficult for a preacher to evoke attention from his audience by calling out upon the heavens and its inmates. But, if Mr. Lucius Beebe is to be credited, The Rev. Mr. Brown used not only to call...