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...Connally, Oklahoma's Gore, North Carolina's Bailey, Virginia's Byrd, Missouri's Clark, Democrats all, deserting their President. Final elimination of the license system would leave the Government powerless to enforce its industrial decrees, and the remainder of the law hardly more than a pious expression of policy which any concern could defy with impunity...
...House members charged that "Sam" Leake, for all his pious exterior, was the real brains behind Judge Louderback, that he arranged receivership appointments, split fees, paid the Judge's bills. Last week "Sam" Leake in San Francisco pleaded that he was too old and ill to attend the Senate trial as a summoned witness. The Senate issued a bench warrant, provided him with a nurse for the trip across the continent...
...stone around his neck and a yapping pack at his heels. The stone is the Irish Seanad (Senate). Its 60 members are elected for nine-year terms by the Dail and Seanad conjointly, in batches of 20 every three years. Once an honorable company, they are now chiefly pious place-hunters. A majority are men of onetime President William T. Cosgrave's Opposition which holds that Ireland cannot support itself free of Britain. Satisfied with the Free State where it stands, they say, "No further." When the oath abolition bill reached them a twelve-month ago they sank...
...moments after M. Herriot had been greeted in French by the President on the White House portico, a limousine drove up and out popped Canada's pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett. Almost simultaneously Canada's Finance Minister Edgar Nelson Rhodes, in Ottawa, was announcing that Canada had ceased redemption of Dominion notes in gold...
...waiters-on-table, the clubs, lectures, Harvard's golden mean ("Three C's and a D and keep out of the newspapers"), its buildings, traditions, dreams-all these and more Author Weller has pasted up in his college scrapbook. Harvard readers may not like some of his pious preservations, may grow misty-eyed over some. Other readers will admit that whether or not Author Weller's Harvard characters have been gliding to any purpose, their performance, to non-Harvard eyes, has been impressive...