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Since the days of Reconstruction and the scandals of the Grant Administration, civil service reform has been a reliable plank in anyone's party platform. The "best people" have embraced it almost as a religion, claiming that it is the solution to every evil in government, while radicals have sneered that it is a false issue, a handful of dust thrown in the eyes of America. Still, every practical politician has had to pay it at least lip service, until now it has become a political cliche. Thus relegated to an obscure corner of the political circus, civil service reform...
...half-sized crowd reported at the Dartmouth game, about three-fourths of which was composed of dates, shoe-shine boys with free tickets, and the perennial mob of sadists who are always willing to plank down $1.65 to see Harvard checked into the boards...
...potential voters, Mickie no longer offers such flimsy reason for election as changing the name of Harvard Square to Washington Square. Morals are still his main plank, but after last year's condemnation of the Student Union's "Cradle Will Rock," he has discovered that in their hearts Harvard men are not what they seem to be. Instead, his own voters along Mass. Avenue, forgetting the primrose pavement, have needed the watchful eye of patrolling, police cars. Already, Sullivan's stitch-in-time has "put a stop to 'mashers' in automobiles accosting women. Any mother, wife or grown daughter...
...architect, he played the Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre on a phonograph. "There you have it," he said. "Climax rising above climax." As Dr. Bowman's Cathedral rose, so did his highhandedness. He fired liberal teachers right and left; during the purge 25 walked the plank, 59 quit. When the American Association of University Professors blacklisted the university, Dr. Bowman snapped: "What of it?" He weathered an investigation by the Pennsylvania Legislature, which in 1935 threatened to cut off the university's life line of State aid (a fourth of Pitt's in come...
Mild, professorial Brazilla Carrol Reece, Republican Representative from Tennessee, World War hero, disembarked in Los Angeles from the Matson liner Matsonia, leaving his wife and daughter on board. When he tried to rejoin them, a pier guard at the gang plank refused to let him pass. At that Hero Reece grappled with the guard, bit his ear good & proper...