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...slip counted in his own quota, presents, it claims, many obstacles. The amount of book-keeping, already great, would be enormously increased, and require expensive additional clerks. Convenient or peculiarly attractive Houses would soon become eating centers, and would be overcrowded; under such conditions, bound to be unstable and irregular, it would be impossible to estimate with accuracy the number of meals to be served at any House at any time. Moreover, if men are permitted to eat wherever they wish, with no limitations, the whole unitary purpose of the House Plan, centered especially in the dining room, is nullified...
Impartial observers rate him thus: a homespun Senator above the average in industry and energy; a fair legislator with 20 years' experience behind him; an economic conservative friendly to Labor; an influential Democrat, irregular only on the tariff, who could play an important part in a Democratic administration. His term expires March...
...your part? Mayor: Well, technically yes. Governor: You had no account there? Mayor: I had no account there. Governor: In other words this is a check on a bank in which you didn't have an account. Mayor: Isn't it a form, after all? It is irregular but. . . . Another Seabury charge had to do with 300 shares of a new bank stock which had been set aside for the Mayor and which was apparently paid for by cash from City Hall. When Mayor Walker testified that the stock was "practically four or five times oversubscribed," Governor Roosevelt...
...tide the Conference over this ugly crisis, Premier Edouard Herriot made one of those speeches which Frenchmen make so well. Keynote: "President Hoover's declaration was founded upon a noble idea." Bon mot: "In all languages the verb 'to disarm' seems to be an irregular verb...
...Brookhart defeat was the first of any sitting Senator in 1932. For six years the chunky, sharpshooting Irregular from Iowa had roared & ranted against Wall Street and Big Business. Republican conservatives in the Senate were pleased that his rasping voice would soon be stilled. His Progressive colleagues smelled a plot in the fact that his opposition was divided among five candidates. Senator Brookhart might, they hinted, even run as an independent this autumn...