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Tammany Hall furnished the first horrid example of what was in store for Democratic organizations that tried to buck the White House. On the first House roll call passing the President's vital economy bill, three Manhattan and seven Brooklyn Democrats voted against it. In the van of the opposition was Brooklyn's freckled Cullen, assistant majority leader of the House, who explained that he had made campaign pledges against salary pension cuts. Said he: "I'm with the President 100% but I'd given my word to my constituents...
...morning in the tower. The Vagabond is awake. Outside the birds are singing in nasty, shrill voices; horrid, sticky buds disfigure the trees; below, a surpassingly unattractive girl is passing. It is cold, and revoltingly early. The Vagabond ponders a moment, with a puzzled look; suddenly it comes to him: his inner standard has returned...
...across the Arctic ice to get his share. But he soon, like Denver's Horace Austin Warner Tabor, made up his mind that the only golddiggers who made fortunes were the middlemen; he went back to hunting and trapping for a living. "Gold-digging," says he, "is a horrid occupation, but a bit better than begging." In Alaska and northern Canada he met many an eccentric adventurer. Dawson Tom was a cardsharp whose favorite dodge for getting free drinks was to produce what looked like a stick of dynamite in a crowded saloon, shout: "Closing time...
...them in the water, bites some of them dead. Finally they catch up with Kong. He flicks all except the producer and first mate into a crevasse, puts Fay Wray on top of a dead tree while he wins a wrestling match with a tyrannosaurus. Thumping his chest in horrid triumph he then carries Miss Wray to his mountain eyrie. The first mate finally rescues Fay Wray while Kong is pulling the wings off a pterodactyl...
...word "inflation" has a horrid sound in most conservative ears, and there is some basis for this dislike. Germany, Japan, and Russia have had very bad luck when handling it, allowing money to depreciate until it was more useful for lighting fires than for exchange. But in these cases the situation was handled with complete lack of common-sense, and under the pressure of conditions not present with us. On the positive side, economists advocate inflation, through the printing of irredeemable scrip by the government, for the very simple reason that more money must be put into circulation...