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Next day, after the Jackson appointment had thus been crowned with success, it became apparent that the Senate would presently have a chance to investigate another appointee, compared to whom Mr. Jackson is a hidebound Tory. As the new Solicitor General was sworn in. Attorney General Cummings announced his choice for Mr. Jackson's successor in the Department of Justice : Thurman Wesley Arnold...
...desirable respect for his material, he has also illustrated his book with nearly 500 reproductions of works of art, rather than with sketches of his own. The Cheney history has positive virtues of completeness, modesty and readability, avoids alike the arrogance of parochial "moderns" and the bluster of hidebound conservatives...
This week-end the Vagabond will spend reading the newly discovered "Letters from Fanny Brawne", which he hopes will make Mathew Arnold look the hidebound fool the Vagabond has always thought...
...paced the deck of the trawler Mino which was anchored olf Southampton last week while customs officials nosed around the ship's hold. His Lordship was all ready to sail to Spain with 100 tons of food and $5,000 to aid Madrid's Radical Government. No hidebound aristocrat is Lord Kinnoull. In 1928 he married the daughter of the late Kate Meyrick, London's "Night Club Queen" who was imprisoned five times for selling unlicensed liquor, bribing police. In 1934 he staggered Britain's bluebloods by declaring from his seat in the House of Lords...
Unfortunately the War Department is deeply immersed in hidebound tradition and takes far too long to use the results of modern inventions and apply them to practical use for the future. The next war will be totally unlike the last. Small field guns, toy cannons and pistol markmanship will be utterly useless, and the teaching of these subjects occupies more time in a valuable college curriculum than the average student ought to spend...