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...that is not only controlling our internal naval policy but dictating its external subordination to those of foreign naval powers. It has been necessary to say what has been said to have a real appreciation of the impelling motives back of President Hoover's efforts at every turn to restrict, to reduce and to starve the U. S. Navy...
...contention that the various States should restrict their shooting seasons, forbid the use of automatic shotguns, live decoys and baiting in fields. As Dr. Pearson might like some proof of what happens to ducks in Arkansas let him read the September issue of Field & Stream. Nash Buckingham writing about what he has actually seen states that 40,000 crippled and rotten ducks were found in a 450-acre field. These are the places where a little law enforcement would be useful. Can't blame the drought for such slaughter, only inhuman beings could...
...alternatives confronting the conferees were: 1) to restrict travel by cutting down schedules or 2) to increase travel by cutting down rates. They took the latter course, announced a cut beginning Aug. 17 of from 10% to 30% in first-class rates, of 13% in third-class rates. In shipping circles it was rumored that the cut had been practically forced by the British, who had threatened a rate war against the French and German lines. Oldsters recalled that in 1904 British and German steamship companies competed so bitterly for immigrant trade that one could travel from Great Britain...
...Tennyson's about "In the Spring" and all the awful things that happen then, but did not the same old rhymster say that there was no joy but calm. He did. And the two are not compatible. The Vagabond has always been a batchelor for woman would restrict the carefree, wandering life such as his. He has patiently borne with the feministic foibles of his followings for he understands that debutantes are occasionally attractive. But he has always thought that they restricted themselves to casual theatres, the dansants, or football games. Marriage was beyond the bounds of even his palsied...
...which could be stirred up to silence opposition would provide employment for many. One can foresee senatorial partisans mobilising forces of radio and talkie property men and armies of extras to create the sound and fury for drowning out opposition. New rules of parliamentary procedure could be formulated to restrict and regulate the use of mechanical aids. Machines operated by steam or hot air might be ruled out but such limitation would exclude some of the more prominent actors in the world of politics...