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Then came the dam. "Aye." voted Senators Hale, White and 26 colleagues. "Nay!" voted 39 angry Senators...
...Conant, in his Tercentenary address, spoke of the necessity of "pruning knowledge", that is throwing out irrevalent material keeping only the essentials, crossing inter-departmental barriers, and getting a broader, general view of the world today. The President has planned new "roving professors", unattached to nay Department, to carry out this pruning. This plan is to be applauded and backed as being one which will tend to counteract the emphasis placed on research and scholarship...
Since he entered the White House, little love has been lost between Franklin Roosevelt and that journalistic triumvirate of New Deal nay-sayers-Frank Richardson Kent, Mark Sullivan & David Lawrence. Smarting under the President's smiling sarcasms as sorely as the President smarts under the unsympathetic reports they write about his Administration, Columnists Kent, Sullivan & Lawrence now fail to appear at White House Press conferences or maintain a dignified silence when Mr. Roosevelt talks to reporters. Not until last week, however, was a public issue made of the breach between President and press critics...
...question remained: Should Halsted L. Ritter be "forever disqualified to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States?" It was put to a vote. Seventy-six Senators voted "Nay," none voted for the extreme penalty...
...still flowery explanation leaves a modern reader in doubt whether he had spent the interim in the gutter or had just not felt like writing: "After a time came rebellion and reckless grasping after life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether-nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned. I took-O sweet and noble soul, this will pain you cruelly, but I must tell it-I took the ring from my finger, for it burnt my flesh with its impossible summons and its intolerable reproach." Three weeks later he wrote that...