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...week that it would require serious effort on his part to find a safe political passage. Secretary Morgenthau conferred with him nearly every day. Budget Director Bell, Secretaries Wallace and Ickes, Assistant WPAdministrator Williams, RFChairman Jones, Rexford G. Tugwell, Chester Davis, Housing Administrator McDonald came & went. It would be safer to steer a little toward the Rock of Taxes, for the Congressional current would suck him back anyway to the Whirlpool. Hence he confirmed the fact that he would ask about half a billion in taxes to pay for his AAA substitute. On Bonus taxes he still remained silent. Meantime...
...author makes a point which we have always considered a very valid one-that under some conditions fast driving is safe and sometimes even safer than slow driving. It is not the habitually fast driver, but the habitually reckless and unskilled, driver who causes most accidents. He needs warning and instruction, both of which this little book supplies. You can't legislate fast driving out of the picture, but you can educate reckless driving...
Since a live man is better off than a dead one, and since Haywood Patterson will probably be safer behind bars for the next few years anyhow, the defense could count the verdict something of a triumph. In fairly good spirits Counsel Leibowitz was proceeding with the case of another Scottsboro boy when the prosecution suddenly challenged written medical testimony made at the second trial by a physician now too ill to go to court and substantiate it orally. Thereupon Judge Callahan indefinitely postponed all further trials, ordered the prisoners back to jail in Birmingham...
This little song. The Bastard King of England, sturdy Kipling friends claim he never wrote and it is omitted from his Collected Works. A better reason and more probable for not making him Poet Laureate was that in such an official post it is safer for the United Kingdom to have someone who confines himself to "poetic themes" and does not lash out with infuriated honesty at Boches, the Yankees and the cinema...
...puzzled Dunster commuter has an interesting problem. He asks, "During a Leap Year is the extra day a day of vacation or another day of classes? Would someone please put an end to this tormenting problem." It would probably be safer if another day of classes were scheduled...