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...Social disturbance and murder until then rife at Barcelona, Valencia and Zaragoza have been absolutely quelled, peace and prosperity restored to those towns and in every part of the Peninsula where the rot was spreading...
...worst of it was that the whole state of Indiana was populous with onetime friends who were leaving him to rot forgotten. Jobholders whose jobs he had secured for them, officials whose offices had come from his bounty-they ignored him now. Back in the fall of 1926 he had threatened to expose some of the less lovely incidents of Indiana statesmanship, had received word that if he kept quiet until after the election he would be "taken care of." He had kept quiet, but his reticence had not been rewarded. In June he had protested against the treatment...
...people must read about their gods and their Pope, let them do so in some other publication, but don't stain your pages with such made-to-please rot...
...Albert C. Barnes is the sort of person who gets himself called, variously, "crazy nut," "queer fish," "genius." His personality has exasperated staid Philadelphians quite as often as his paintings have upset academicians of the school of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania, whose senior member called them "rot" in 1923, after Mr. Barnes had endowed a chair in the school. Dr. Barnes, in short, is a person who couples action with his unconventional convictions...
...other proposal, which was hinted at. But Dr. Butler did not seem to touch it, and that is the repeal of the 18th Amendment and the substitution therefor of Government control, Government sale and distribution of intoxicating liquor to 120,000,000 of people. . . . "In my opinion, it would rot out the pillars of government inside of half a century. It contains every evil and none of the virtues of Prohibition. It would be bureaucracy and bureaucracy-drunk! . . . "I agree with Dr. Butler. The fight is on. So far as I am concerned, I do not care whether...