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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unavoidable. Admiral Byrd, apparently, does not possess this "passion for anonymity." But we might point out that even publicity-hungry, head-scratching Smedley Butler manages to pursue his racket of lecturing on "War is a Racket" in civilian clothes with not one of his five medals in sight. Spray 'em with Larvex, Admiral, and pack 'em in mothballs...
...Paris a few years ago he completed one of black granite, 25 ft. high, 10 ft. thick at the base. When San Franciscans failed to produce enough money to move it sight unseen to California, he abandoned it in a French barn (where it is still held for unpaid storage) and returned to California with two smaller statues salvaged from stone chopped out from under the saint's arms...
...years ago Aglipay did almost as well as Aguinaldo in the Presidential campaign in which Manuel Quezon swamped them both. Before the Eucharistic Congress opened, Aglipay sought an injunction to restrain the Commonwealth from issuing postage stamps commemorating the Congress. Failing, he kept out of sight last week and other Aglipayans did nothing to mar the pious occasion. Absent also, for apparently mixed reasons, was President Quezon. Four years ago Quezon was a Mason, an anti-Catholic. Ailing of tuberculosis, he was visited often by Manila's affable, Irish-born Archbishop O'Doherty. Finally Quezon abjured Freemasonry...
Though the President's message on judicial "reform" may contain a few good ideas, it seems to be a case of the wheat and the tares growing together, with the tares outstripping everything else in sight. For in talking about crowded calendars, dockets two and three years behind schedule, waste, expense, and inefficiency in litigation, and the consequent inaccessibility of justice to the "little fellow", Mr. Roosevelt's remarks, as they apply to district courts, and to a lesser extent to the circuit courts of appeal, are true as gospel. Yet to induce from the bad conditions prevalent...
...Said he in the worst of hard times: "Get me right. I'm not going to talk bullish. Nothing like that. I can't see myself sitting on a pink cloud right now. But people are overdoing this pessimism." Today, with the pink cloud at least in sight. John Pelley, like a spry trainman who runs ahead to see that all is clear, is giving the pink cloud the highball...