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...dead stop on March 3, 1933. You and I need not rehearse the four years of disaster and gloom. . . . You and I can well remember the overwhelming demand that the national Government come to the rescue of the home-owners and the farm-owners. . . . You and I still recollect the need for and the successful attainment of a banking policy which not only opened the closed banks but guaranteed deposits. . . . You and I have not forgotten the enthusiastic support that succeeded, and still in part succeeds, in ending the labor of children in mills and factories. . . . You and I will...
...Constitution which was enacted anyhow (TIME, June 17), humbly sealed his peace with Leader Baldwin last week. "In the Prime Minister we have a statesman," cried Mr. Churchill, "who has gathered to himself a greater volume of confidence and goodwill than any other man I can recollect in my long public career...
...connote one thing-the Congo atrocities. They will remember appalling stories of hacked-off hands, of burned women, of forced labor. They will recall, perhaps dimly across the abyss of the World War, that the Belgian king who preceded Albert made millions out of "red rubber" and they may recollect that of a population of some 20,000,000 blacks living along the Congo when Henry M. Stanley first traced the river from source to sea only 10,000,000 were left alive when Leopold died...
...recurrent phrases "watch the drivers roll," exactly like the wording of the song "Vanderbilt's Daughter" written in Virginia?if I recollect correctly many years earlier? strongly indicate that either Newton & Seiberg drew chiefly on the older song rather than on any origination of Saunders, or that Saunders merely applied new names and a few facts to the older song as he had heard...
...reminds us that that defunct publication is stirring within its whited sepulchre. With what rosy promises they beguiled the eager freshmen into the wolf-tended folds of their subscribers; with what lurid phrases they depicted the Alpine peaks of journalism which they were about to scale! Tenacious memoirs will recollect that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate's bustle, and in a soft, artistic way, other pundits refined the dross...