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...still as the Secretary of Commerce that Mr. Hoover received newsgatherers one final time. In a three-minute speech he thanked them for their patience and industry in making public the doings of the Department. "We thought we had a gospel to preach here," he said. He bade adieu to his heads of bureaus in a choked voice...
...Cleveland Boy Scout Council, whose idea the cigaret crusade apparently was. Executive West told Executive Rowe that the provincial council had a "misunderstanding as to the real aims and purposes of the Boy Scout movement." The real aim, he said, is to make better boys, not to preach to others on matters of private conduct...
...vision jealously lest he fall short of the highest character that he would reach; for a dimness of the moral sight, a blunting of the keen edge of sensibility, is the most insidious of perils. This, I think, is what Phillips Brooks meant in a sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former is a conscious fault; recognized by the man as such, which he thoroughly regrets and resolves not to commit again; the latter an excused fault, condoned...
...vision jealously lest he fall short of the highest character that he would reach; for a dimness of the moral sight, a blunting of the keen edge of sensibility, is the most insidious of perils. This, I think, is what Phillips Brooks meant in a sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former is a conscious fault; recognized by the man as such, which he thoroughly regrets and resolves not to commit again; the latter an excused fault, condoned...
Elected. Col. George M. Sliney, Wyoming pioneer, lifelong friend of Buffalo Bill, first to officiate at a wedding and preach a funeral sermon in the Big Horn Basin; to be mayor of Thermopolis, Wyoming...