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...fellows all know they are guilty and not consistent for one-tenth of a second. . . . But it takes the combined courage and devotion of the whole people of this country to meet this emergency and I call upon my fellow Democrats to respond. . . . Do your duty by your country! Redeem your country's credit...
...Tottenville, N. Y. a clam digger found 22 silver dollars in a tin box in the mud. He sped them to a bank. ¶ Near Fort Wayne, Ind. a farmer hid $250 in an old bureau drawer. Rats chewed the bills to bits so small that banks refused to redeem the trash. ¶ At Los Angeles a 10-year-old boy found a tin can, used it as a target for rifle practice. Out of the can his father extracted eleven $1,000 bills, perforated with bullet holes. A broker accepted the currency in payment for securities...
RUSSIAN Literature, like that of America began to free itself from western Europe in the early part of the nineteenth century. Pushkin, Tolstoi, and Dostoevsky all wrote with a nationalistic outlook. As a leading Slavophil, Dostoevsky wished that Russia, with its great spiritual resources, should inspire and redeem the decaying civilization of Europe...
Spectators in the Yale Bowl last week expected to see Princeton somewhat redeem itself from six defeats in a row. What they saw instead was a ridiculous landslide in which Yale ran up the biggest score in Big Three history, 51 to 14. Yale's small Captain Albie Booth, ill with pleurisy, listened to the game over a radio, wondered later whether, as Coach Stevens was quoted as saying, "Every Yale player felt that he was playing for Albie Booth. . . . 'Another touchdown for Albie' was the word passed along...
This is a commendable attempt to redeem the freshman year of the aimlessness that too often characterizes it, to make it count as one the four mature college years rather than as a painful period of adaptation. For many men this first year is worse than merely an ineffective time of transition; it represents a false start that is hardly corrected be for the senior year...