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Sometimes these various relics, like the prisoners of the Bastille, are thrown into the dank den and then left to rot forgotten. In one musty corner, investigators discerned what seemed to be the tattered remnsuts of old Blondie, the maiden aunt of the hippopotamus in the Union...
...impartial study, followed by a program of public education. Always before, they point out, research on this problem has been conducted by a group hopelessly prejudiced one way or the other, or else the results of its investigation have been buried deep in the files of libraries, there to rot away and never become available to the reading public. When the results of impartial research are made generally known, they contend, a workable national program can be drawn...
When Governor Earle on Monday night advocated a resumption of government spending to check the depression, he showed a sense of reality that deserted him a few moments later when he condemned as "rot" Robert Jackson's charge that business had gone on a sit down strike against the government. Such a charge is rot only if we take Jackson to mean that a handful of magnates have formed a revengeful cabal to sabotage the New Deal. The National Association of Manufacturers is really an elegant institution. But Jackson was not ridiculous when he claimed that the policies of large...
...response to a question asking his opinion of the soundness of Solicitor General Robert Jackson's recent condemnation of a "sit-down strike of business against the government." Governor Earle said. "I won't comment on the rest of the speech, but talk of a business strike is damned rot. Business is not organized to go on strike...
...methodical Gottfried von Cramm that meant a rigid training schedule with no alcohol or tobacco, eleven hours' sleep every night, long hours of practice at the Rot-Weiss club with Teacher Kleinschrroth, who, he now believes, "contributed more to my game than any other instructor." What Teacher Kleinschroth contributed was not only an array of effective sV , s but the habit of not depending on iy one of them. Froitzheim had taught him the necessity of sound ground strokes and good physical condition. All these qualities were beginning to be apparent in 1931 when he handily won his first...