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Before entering the diplomatic service, Mr. Moore was engaged for many years in newspaper work with considerable success, and he is well qualified to make this attempt to redeem the tabloid. But the chief reason for the remarkable growth of the tabloid press to the point where some one of its members has the largest circulation in most of our large cities is the fact that they appeal to a class of readers that the orthodox papers did not touch. This was due to the fact that they did feature the type of news which this additional body of readers...
Then in 1821 across the Sabine River came mild-mannered Stephen F. Austin of Missouri and his band of settlers "to redeem Texas from its wilderness state by means of the plow alone." Paradoxically, these people became loyal citizens of the Mexican Republic and ousted rebels from the land. But when Santa Anna, the Mexican general of the dark and cruel eyes, turned his guns on the Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio), a different story began. Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett and 180 Texans refused for eleven days to be ousted from the Alamo...
...factors made prudent and possible the act of M. le President: 1) The Bank of France now holds sufficient gold or foreign securities to redeem every centime of the national paper currency, apt to be presented, at its present value of 25 francs to the dollar; 2) So great is the reviving confidence of French peasants in securities payable in francs that they are now buying and stuffing them into stockings at such a rate that urban French capitalists are left with a legitimate surplus of capital for investment abroad. A further prop to French financial stability...
...right for U. S. people, with "wealth to burn," to indulge in the "habit," but he "earnestly" hoped that "the honorable gentlemen whom I am now addressing" would see to it that the practice was limited; for, said he, goods so bought "neither earn their cost nor redeem themselves out of earnings," and sales so made are "a drug to trade...
When the three reels of "Athletics at Harvard during the year 1926-1927" were shown recently at the Union before a hall jammed with students, the consensus of comment was that the athletes had made a noble and not unsuccessful attempt to redeem the University's histrionic prestige. The entire cast had the verve and spontaneity which comes only without rehearsal. Individual bits of skilful characterization and subtle nuance were too numerous commendation. Certainly the achievement of the football squad, even under the handicap of mere practice, contrasts sharply with the inability of the Dramatic Club's finest to gain...