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...long passes which it is expected the Big Green will uncork tomorrow were tried time and again and more often than not they were successful. Unless the backs improve in this department there is serious danger that whatever good work the line may do will go for naught, as was the case last week against the Cadets...
...rightfully his in the first place. Then such a repayment would not effectively wash the stain from the Republican robe of state. Now, with the suggestion that Mr. Borah donate the sum already gathered to the needy miners of Pennsylvania, the original purpose of the scheme has come to naught. The secondary result which the "Nation" hints at still remains nevertheless. Mr. Borah, though the possibility of his ever attaining to the Presidency through such a stroke is most improbable, has yet brought himself into the public eye in a way that many of the more promising presidential candidates...
Indeed, to its spiritual leaders. Sodom and Gomorrah appear as naught beside Chicago, which is anathematized as the home of all that is corrupt, where vice abounds unchecked by conniving officialdom and the people are at the mercies of bombs and poisonous liquors. So the churchmen gather to pray that the growing pains of the turbulent city may be abated and that the ballot box may no longer yield a forced crop of magistrates. But yesterday's declaration of faith seems hardly the means by which to procure the metamorphosis at a time when gangsters scoff at the impotence...
...Telegraph Co. Federal Telegraph had assets, Dec. 31, 1925, of $5,715,383 and net operating profits for that year of $117,061. The acquisition of Federal Telegraph's Pacific Coast radio system seems to put the Mackay Companies in command of transpacific communications, and may put to naught Western Union's contemplated permalloy cable. Mackay Companies, through Commercial Pacific Cable Co., owns the only present transpacific cable. This cable operates between the U. S., Hawaii, the Philippines and China. Mackay Companies, further, covers the U. S. with Postal Telegraph, although to a less thorough extent than does...
Each bit is gently clear, with naught...