Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sever Quadrangle. Improvement, planful aspiration, avowed democratic principle--all these have a way ofturning will-o'-the wisp when the builders of the report, who are either too safely ensconced in the best clubs to care about action, or are alumni like the Princeton investigator, decide quite humanly to let it go at that. Changes in any club system seem to be a matter of maturaration within the clubs themselves, rather than any yet discovered surgery...
Bill Mr. Kahn and be sure to address the peppiest magazine in America to the EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT, St. Paul Daily News; let the business office, too, subscribe if it would read...
...House let the Senators fight it out, this session, and a long fight it was. California's Johnson introduced the bill in the early Spring. Utah's Smoot aided Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden, first indirectly, then directly, in delaying the debate. Maryland's Bruce and Tydings and Tennessee's McKellar helped the Arizonans too. But it was the orotund Ashurst and the dogged Hayden who, with desks stacked high with time-consuming documents, talked and talked and talked the bill to a standstill last week...
Roared Delegate John Weatherhead: "Politics never grew an ounce of tea or turned a wheel. Let's stick to trade and political independence...
...Japan recently sent troops to occupy the Chinese province of Shantung (TIME, April 30). Potent Editor Seto Chen of the Chinatown Nationalist Daily said, last week: "I know a Chinese merchant here who has a stock of Japanese goods worth $15,000 on his shelves. He has consented to let our Chinese Citizens League decide what to do with it. If I am not mistaken there will be a big bonfire in Mott Street one of these days...