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Nothing so exasperates farmers and their friends as to hear a friend of the manufacturers and their Tariff talk scornfully about Government-nurtured Prosperity. A howl of protest went up in Washington against Senator Reed's suggestion. Charles Collins Teague, the Farm Board's vice chairman, declared that $289,050,019 of the Board's $500,000,000 revolving fund was out on amply secured loans to co-operatives and "a large part, if not all, the money loaned will be returned to the Treasury." Oregon's Senator McNary, declaring Senator Reed's proposal "absurd," harked back to the Board...
Paris, beloved of poets, got its share of affection from Baudelaire. Unhappy in it, he was less happy away, always came back. Once for a few disastrous weeks he edited a provincial conservative paper. His first editorial set his readers howling with rage, just as their wives began to howl at the spectacle of himself and Jeanne living unsanctified in their respectable midst. Once his stepfather got him a job in India, but Baudelaire got off at Mauritius, went back on the next boat...
...yard. She had only meant to discourage them from loitering. Her basement windows had to be washed twice a day because of them. "Early in the morning and late at night and . . . during the day there were dogs in front of the house" said Mrs. Corel. "They bark and howl. We tried to grow plants in window boxes but the dogs would not let them alone. . . . The dogs of neighbors destroyed the trees and shrubbery in front of the house and the dogs' owners would not restrain them...
There are no valid reasons for opposing an earlier start. The howl of overemphasis which some would inevitably set up has no logical foundation. If a college is to have a football team, it is not overemphasis to give the team an even chance against its opponents...
...They could vote, the police told them, either for an obscure and locally unpopular candidate offered by Dictator Kemal's own "Peoples' Republican Party" or for the eminent and honored Fethi Bey, founder-candidate of the new "Liberal Republican Party." When some of the rabble began to howl "Bread, bread!", protesting that in their misery they did not want to vote, police lashes curled, cracked. His Excellency Fethi Bey was triumphally elected. Next day 15 Kemalist Deputies deserted the President's party as ostentatiously as possible, announced that after communing with their consciences they had become...