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From sundown to sundown the devout turned their talus-wrapped shoulders and bowed heads toward the East in dutiful prayer. Then, as the ram's horn sounded Yom Kippur's end, Yorkville Jews scurried back to their stores for reassurance. On the front windows of more than 50 of them they found scratched in six-inch letters the word...
...true importance of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is not that it is one of the six largest daily advertising media in the country or that it prints more news and handles it better than any of its competitors, but that its editorial page is a great battering ram of influence on the public opinion of the Midwest. Responsibility for Post-Dispatch editorials is vested in the "editor of the editorial page." Last month Clark McAdams, editorial page editor since 1926, was advanced to the position of associate editor. By last week, his successor had had ample time to shake...
After reading your issue of June 11 I went down to the pasture and read to the old ram your famed statement on multiple births. Since which he has done nothing but strut, because he is the father of twins by more than a fourth of the ewes...
...weeping: "Five of them. . . . I'm the sort of man they should keep in jail. . . . No bigger than my thumb . . . five more! ... I am not strong." Unsympathetic were his rustic French-Canadian friends, who chaffed him roundly, not neglecting to remind him that Ovila means ''little ram...
...house." Although he had pressed firmly for the treaty's ratification the President did not at the last moment roll up his sleeves and try to whip reluctant Senators into line. Even Leader Robinson made no stirring final appeal. Because it has more important measures to ram through, the Administration refrained from putting the screws on its Senate followers, thus wasting Presidential strength and risking Presidential prestige. Real significance of the St. Lawrence defeat was that the President now recognized he had to husband his power, that a simple expression of his wishes was no longer...