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...were shut off by Commissioner Meyer on the ground that the Railway Labor Board and not the I. C. C. had jurisdiction on pay scales. Mr. Cole, representing all southern carriers, pleaded for swift action by the I. C. C., asked that no exceptions be made for certain commodities lest the hearings degenerate into "an ordinary rate case." Said he: "The doctor will arrive only to find the patient dead." All three rail presidents plumed themselves on the fact that they had not asked for a rate high enough to guarantee what the law declares is a "fair return...
...always been a Paderewski, anti-Pilsudski bailiwick. The Wilson unveiling resolved itself into a grand Paderewski jamboree. Dictator Pilsudski and Pianist Paderewski (officially tending his sick wife in Switzerland) both considered it wise to absent themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited. At the last minute, lest the Paderewskites should stage some really serious demonstration, Dictator Pilsudski sent puppet President Moscicki to the unveiling. He drove with Mrs. Wilson and the Baruch family through streets of cheering citizens. As President Moscicki came abreast of rank after rank of Poznan citizens most of them shouted: "Long live Paderewski...
...Lest anyone should think he had contradicted the encyclical by this interpretation, Cardinal Bourne explained that after joining a political party a good Catholic must beware of "erroneous principles which sometimes affect parties...
...intention of many owners of yachts not to put them into commission this year lest they give offence to some of their friends who have been hard hit by the industrial depression, and also for fear it might offend in times like these. I have three friends who intend to keep their yachts at their docks this year for these reasons...
...seniors to browse in while they lie beneath the mid day sun. "More Boners" for instance will make the veriest dullard feel confident of graduation. "Years Of Grace," the new Pulitizer prize novel, is no worse than most Pulitzer awards. The Vagabond feels called upon to state, lest he arouse false hopes, that Grace unfortunately is not a proper noun, nor yet an improper girl. Quite a wag, the old fellow. And then there is the Saturday Evening Post. Long years ago the Vagabond had a nickle which, being a shiftless wastrel, he immediately spent. Even in those bygone days...