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...gain by: 1) more annual operating days per mine; 2) stabilized employment in working all mines the same number of days; 3) an equal opportunity to regain markets lost to competitive fuels. As for the bootleggers, the Governor hopes they will ultimately be absorbed by stabilized legitimate producers. This pious hope gains strength from the cooperative policy of neighboring States (New York. New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware), which have already narrowed the 'leggers' markets by import (stolen goods) restrictions...
...Pious New-Dealing Frank Murphy did not take his seat until this week...
...save democracy from the Reds, to rescue Christ from the anti-Christ of materialistic Marxism. These are more powerful slogans than those which deceived and betrayed us into the slaughter of 1917. The leading voices of European imperialism, our own profiteering patriots and pothouse politicians, have suddenly all become pious...
...reports. Lord Halifax once said with evident truth: "I would rather be a Master of Foxhounds than Prime Minister." That is natural, for Edward Wood grew up outdoors on his father's spacious estate at Garrowby, Yorkshire, where he learned to ride as soon as to walk. His pious father, the second Viscount Halifax, was for 60 years the leader of the High Church party whose never realized dream was to reunite the Church of England with the Church of Rome...
...education, like the Supreme Court, follows the election returns. In God fearing Colonial days, U. S. school readers were pious; later, in the era of industrial expansion, they glorified industry and thrift. Last week was published a new type of school reading book that appeared to mark off another period in U. S. history. Its theme was not religious, not economic, but political. Born of the U. S. people's chief present concern-alarm at dictatorship's threat-these readers were entitled Democracy Readers.* If democracy can be taught from a book, the U. S. should soon...