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...President, Franklin Roosevelt tossed philosophy overboard, faced facts. His choice lay between direct Federal relief and mass starvation accompanied by almost inevitable rebellion. Promptly- through CWA, PWA, CCC, FERA-he began pouring public millions into private pockets. As the Government rushed in to support and finally almost supplant private charity, solvent citizens took notice. Since they were paying the Federal relief bill through taxation, they began to doubt the practical necessity of any longer subscribing to private charities. In 1932, 120 cities contributed $57,800,000 to private charities. Last year the same cities contributed...
...story goes that the First Man of the land throwing caution to the winds and disregarding the horrible example of the 1919 White Sox, deliberately ordered the team representing his Alma Maler to toss a few games overboard while guests of the land of the cherry blossoms...
...present condition of squabbling decadence no intelligent young man wishes to join it even if he feels that the new deal violates principles for which he stands. The party must do three things. It must throw overboard the mass of deadwood is the G.O.P. It must face the new deal, not only admitting what is good in this deal but explaining why the wrong is wrong. Most important, it must bring home in simple words the evils of the system to the country. As Brisbane has said, no politician should speak in terms of more than...
Less brutal was the conduct of slangy Able Seaman Jerry Edgerton: "I kept thinking about that poem 'The Boy Stood On The Burning Deck.' Finally my bunk pals shook me out of it and we decided to go overboard. A couple of girls came up and asked?polite but excited?if we'd mind their going along with us. I said. 'Sure, help yourself to the Atlantic and jump in.' When we were in the water I don't know what happened to one of the girls but when the other seemed about ready to give up I said. 'Come...
...once put the ship's boat about and steered away from Turkey but the soldiers opened fire. Crack!-A bullet tore through the flesh of Lieut. Maunsell's shoulder. Crack!-Another shot got Surgeon Lieut. D. J. W. Robinson. He spun up, clutching his side, toppled overboard and disappeared. As the Turks kept on firing, wounded Lieut. Maunsell and the remaining British officer dived into the Aegean and swam for dear life toward Greece until picked up by other pleasure-bent Britons...