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...present (and higher) replacement costs. Meanwhile the railroads pay according to the Government formula, but under protest. The Fund, augmented in ten months last year by $732,448.34 (from 33 lines) now approximates $6,000,000, but may not be dispersed because there is no prospect of the valuation quarrel being settled...
Shipping Board. The President wanted the operation of the Government Merchant Fleet placed under a single executive head responsible to him, wanted the Shipping Board confined to regulative and semi-judicial functions. Congress shrugged its shoulders at the quarrel...
...will not shoot. ... If any gentleman here finds it necessary to take further issue with my honor, let him fire at me. I will not return his fire. I shall not resort to this stupid, inconclusive, and barbaric method of settling a quarrel which has been forced* upon me. I had hoped that because of my services to Poland no Pole would take my life. I have been shot at and missed. Had I shot I would not have missed. But I, for my part, I am unwilling to shoot another Pole...
...Every quarrel has its roots in misunderstanding, as the Good Book says. What Good Book? I fancy you'll find it on the police docket. And that there may be no misunderstanding. I am not the man who stuffs birds, nor the Crime colyumist who stuffs Harvard. I came in here while the real poseur was out astonishing the natives of Hanover, and I haven't the manner, no, nor the acquaintance with Central Square duennas, required to write this column...
...alleged snobbery and social intrigue, still, curiosity is at least the second strongest of passions and a body of fairly reliable fact has become public property-through indiscreet wives, brazen peepers and sheer accident-with the currency of which the inscrutable ones would not be so foolish as to quarrel. Thus, it is known that one "tomb" is furnished in the acme of masculine comfort, all its furniture being heavily upholstered in black leather; that over a bathtub hangs a portrait in oils of Napoleon; that each "tomb" has its windowless "shrine" or ceremonial chamber where the most unmentionable rites...