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...sent him running up & down 15 flights of stairs. Still whiskey, etc. would send him into his dance. Nothing would cure him. He finally packed up and went home, resolved never to touch a drop again. One thing that consoled him: his leaping great-grandfather had lived to the ripe age of 87; his great-aunt, 72, and great-uncle, 81, were still dancing around the old homestead in the South...
...members of the group do have such a policy, but are keeping it under their Homburgs, then they are guilty of the kind of opportunism usually associated with politicians rather than professors. Talk of morale and unity does not answer one basic question: When the time is ripe, is American defense, Harvard Group, ready to go down the line with the William Allen White Committee in a drive for active intervention...
...Angeles he was hailed by one of the largest political gatherings in history. 2. At San Francisco he said Roosevelt dynamited the 1933 London Economic Conference. 3. At Portland, Ore. he endorsed Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams. 4. At Pontiac, Mich. he was hit by a ripe tomato. 5. At Coffeyville he wrote "No Third Term-Wendell Willkie...
...Many of us fear that the time is ripe for another pandemic siege of influenza" he said, adding that he has great admiration for the U.S. Public Health Service which is responsible for protecting this country from such an epidemic, and he hopes that any increase in influenza can be checked with the help of a serum which is now being developed...
...rdenas' Party of the Mexican Revolution, General Camacho's principles are far to the right of the Party's. Having sensed a swing to the right in Mexican politics, having observed the temper of some of the Rightists, Avila Camacho last week thought the time ripe to enunciate his principles. He announced that he was a good Catholic (the Church has been disestablished since 1859), that Communists would not be permitted to collaborate with his Government (Communists were welcomed by Lázaro Cárdenas), that he would get along without the help of Radical Labor...