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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tariff Bill in the House was so muddled, so many grievances of special groups were so massed together, as to give the appearance of a major revolt against the Hoover-dominated Committee which drew the Bill. The old axiom, "The tariff is a local issue," was never more clearly demonstrated...
...three years has been, occupied by James John Walker (48). Mayor Walker (he is addressed never as "Your Honor" but as "Mister Mayor," like ''Mister President") last week laid a public school corner stone at Coney Island, broke ground for a new subway, endorsed National Hospital Day, held his 6-year-old nephew Paul Burke on his knee at City Hall while the lad was publicly immunized against diphtheria to the boom of flashlights, prepared to attend the Kentucky Derby. Also, he pondered this question: Should he take an eagerly-offered renomination from Tammany in the primary next...
...switch Police Commissioners, as a sop, to divert popular attention from the unpleasant subject by a great display of traffic-controlling in the midtown districts. But nobody cares deeply. The subways are still hideously crowded, but even Wall Street millionaires still ride on them cheerfully. Additional busses have never materialized because, with the Mayor's consent, a franchise was awarded to a worthless company. These sins of omission New York's millions of voters are ready to forgive, owing chiefly to inertia, other diversions, and the persuasive good-fellowship of Tammany Hall...
...Clement Danes Church and hear a sermon on the text: "Cursed be he that transgresseth the bounds and doles of his neighbor." Then, led by the rector, the choir boys and the "substantial men" must make a tour of the parish boundaries. In order that they shall never forget just where the boundaries are, the Virgin Queen decreed that the substantial men must soundly bump the heads of the choir boys against each boundary mark...
...never been a sin at Harvard to think for oneself and in the particularly violent times directly following the war, many politically unorthodox professors found their sole defense in the President's office. Harvard men were to be allowed the right to hear both sides of a question even if one of these sides were branded as high treason by a majority of alumni. Of all the achievements which the last twenty years have seen-in Cambridge perhaps the greatest is this sturdy maintenance of an honored tradition of rugged Yankee independence...