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...both by assisting with the teaching program and providing openings for the small group of graduates. In acordance with the completely changing sentiment towards the civil service the trained men should be welcomed with open arms. The attitude of the country has almost reached the point where Jefferson's motto might be changed to read, "The government governs best that governs most." How good this expanding government will be depends in large part upon the training of the young men by such schools as the one Harvard is founding...
...municipal Board of Health, aids in Community Chest campaigns, founded northern Missouri's first Negro Catholic church, an Information Forum for people of all creeds, a riverfront shelter and cafeteria which the Government took over in 1934 as a transient relief bureau. In the shelter, whose motto was "We never ask questions," Monsignor Buddy did such good deeds as buying haircuts and hair ribbons for little girls who thanked him because: "We wanted to look nice for Sunday School at the Methodist Church tomorrow...
...Watch out for a strong team the week after it has been beaten," has been this season's soundest football motto. Watching was all Iowa did when Minnesota, nosed out by Northwestern last fortnight, uncorked 42 players, rolled up a score...
...Club nearly provoked the Nazi brownshirt proletariat of Kiel to riot by announcing they would celebrate Jan. 27 the birthday of Der Kaiser. A clash was averted. The Kaiserlichers dined and roared "Hoch der Kaiser!", but Storm Troops in Kiel then and there resolved to destroy a Club whose motto did not seem to be "Heil Hitler!" A message from Kiel to Doom bleakly informed Commodore Wilhelm Hohenzollern that his Kaiserlicher Club had just been dissolved, its handsome premises turned over to officers of the Nazi Navy...
...firm of N. W. Ayer & Son. The late Francis Wayland Ayer simply named the firm in honor of his father when he founded it in 1869. There are no Ayers at all in the firm today. Through the years the partnership of N. W. Ayer & Son stuck to its motto, "Keeping Everlastingly At It Brings Success," waxed rich on many & many a small account, some big ones like those of Ford Motor Co. and American Telephone & Telegraph. By 1928 the firm had grown so large that it built its own 13-story building on Philadelphia's West Washington Square...