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Last week the New Deal was to be seen standing with Carter Glass instead of Carter Glass against the New Deal. This remarkable conjunction occurred on an omnibus banking bill which the Virginian and a Senate Banking & Currency sub-committee spent more than two months working over. When the measure was unanimously reported to the Senate last week, all hands agreed that a neat job of compromise had been executed on the ticklish issue of centralizing the U. S. Banking System under White House (i. e. political) control. The Senate bill will centralize bank credit but not under direct political...
Social Security. In five days the Senate polished up, passed and sent to conference one of the great omnibus measures of the session-the Social Security Bill. Besides appropriating a few (50) millions for poor mothers, crippled children, the blind and public health work, it combined four major schemes, meaning much to many millions of citizens...
...booted footmen sprang up behind, the coachman cracked his whip, and out through Grosvenor Gate the coach rolled, to smack into collision with a lumbering scarlet omnibus. With one horse streaming blood, the coach careened wildly up Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George Sidney Clive, D. S. 0. bounced about. There was a second collision near the corner by the Marble Arch with an evil-smelling sweeper's cart, wrenching a wheel off the coach. Shaken but uninjured the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps descended from his rehearsal...
There can be no doubt that the authors are profound classical scholars, for on the very first page one finds the inspiring quotation "Omnibus ad ques hae litterae pervenerint Saintem." That they are cultured they prove by the quotations from Thomas Arnold, Bacon, Kant, and Moutaigue. A cultured shudder gently ripples down their sensitive spines as they forsee the end of the liberal arts tradition in the old school. We can almost see a wistful fear dropping upon the already damp paper as they plaintively ask, "Have you considered what would be thought by the other great teachers...
Considering mystery&151;&&151;adventure-story readers as a mass market, publishers have tried various methods to supply it: the omnibus&151;Dorothy Sayers, Carolyn Wells; the monthly release&151; Crime Club, Mystery League; uniform binding&151;the early French translations, Fantomas, the works of Wilkie Collins. Last week, Appleton-Century brought out a set of 15 thrillers characterized as The Tired Business Man's Library. The series includes the soothing romance inspired by centre-fire .45's, thrills inculcated by euphemistic detectives, and the shakes and chills of horror by night. Included are no omnibi, but individual...