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Opposition to the proposed charter has been directed at its proportional representation features, which, according to Lynch, have "a manifest tendency towards racial, religious, and professional groups...
...fairly representative of the country as a whole." According to available prison statistics, there was an appreciable fall in the amount of drunkenness during the first four months of the war. Dr. Snell's reasons: ". . . Resolute acceptance of the present situation in contrast to the wild enthusiasm manifest in 1914 ... a heightened sense of social responsibility . . . and the static character of the war itself during its early months...
Last year U. S. exporters sold $162,763,000 worth of goods in the strange ports that line the Cradle of Civilization. Excalibur's manifest was a cross section of this lost market: automobiles, steel, chemicals, machinery for Alexandria, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beirut; iron, lubricating oils and tinplate for Genoa and Naples; an assortment of flour, corn products, hides, apples, wool, tires, lead, wearing apparel, paper, missionaries. From Mediterranean docks, the U. S. got a $153,677,000 import trade. Of this, too, American Export freighters carried the lion's share: long-staple cotton from Alexandria, olive...
Standing in the rain on a bridge spanning Chicago's Jackson Park Lagoon, Magician Claude Noble, hymnbook in hand, intoned to the watery sky: "Clarence Darrow, I am here in fulfillment of your pact made with me. If you can manifest yourself, do it now." It was the second anniversary of the death of the famed lawyer and agnostic. On the bridge whence his ashes had been scattered waited Darrow's widow, son, and a cluster of friends. There was no manifestation...
That popular opinion is divided on that question quickly became manifest. Some sports writers applauded, some raised eyebrows. Chicago reprinted and sent to its alumni an article in The American Mercury by John R. Tunis, who described many a shady practice, charged that U. S. college football was "an unsavory racket...