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...both fair by the residents and ample for running expenses by the financial boards. The collection is a bit more tedious than in other houses but the degree of surety is much greater, the interest spread in the workings of the House committee is far wider and the general result in satisfaction repays the initial effort many times over...
...theory this might result in Mr. Green's losing the presidency of the A. F. of L., for a man must hold a union membership card to be an officer. In practice it was little more than an insult, for it would be several months before Mr. Green could be tried and finally ousted by his original union in Coshocton, Ohio. Meanwhile, he has ample opportunity to join another A. F. of L. union, in fact is already an honorary member of the musicians' union...
...their cavernous new marble chamber, against their rich red velvet backdrop, the nine U. S. Supreme Court Justices looked magnificent but could hear little. To improve acoustics, more red velvet curtains were draped at either end of the bench. Result was to cast the justices into shadowy gloom. Last week the red curtains, side and rear, were swathed in white, and only in the front half of the chamber were inverted ceiling lights switched on. Thus the audience was thrown into shadow, the black-robed old actors into brilliant relief...
...Bureau of Investigation, nevertheless falls into the literary ambush that has trapped so many of his predecessors, composing an account that contains two parts of philosophizing on crime to every one part of concrete information, two descriptions of plodding toil for every one of exciting capture or escape. The result is an uneven book narrowly saved from tediousness by Author Purvis' occasional candor...
...measure by recent appointments, proves that it is possible to get this happy combination of proficiencies only in the isolated instance. Experience has shown that if the teacher-scholar fulfills his function ably in two out of three departments, he is a relatively happy choice; further, that today the result of this policy is to attract men who are capable research scholars and to a lesser degree, able graduate teachers, but not capable instructors of undergraduates...