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...Joseph Vince, to whose Salle d'Armes Mr. Locke sent her, saw very little promise in Dorothy; her knees wobbled, she had poor coordination. She practiced three hours at a time, three times a week, became a close friend of Marion Lloyd who, another Vince pupil, has the soundest technic among U. S. woman fencers. Dark-haired, calm, utterly unromantic, Fencer Locke trains on as much chow-mein as she can eat, never loses her temper in a bout. In her autograph collection she prizes most highly the signature of Helene Mayer, the German Army officer's daughter...
When the American Legion lobby tried to block President Roosevelt's economy bill last fortnight, it was given the soundest drubbing in its history by a Congress obedient only to the White House. Last week the American Federation of Labor lobby laid itself open to the same kind of public punishment by its opposition to the President's first big relief measure...
...friends," began the easy Rooseveltian voice in countless homes, ". . . when you deposit money in a bank, the bank does not put the money into a safe deposit vault. It invests your money, puts it to work. . .. What, then, happened? There was a general rush so great that the soundest banks could not get enough currency to meet the demand. ... It was then that I issued the proclamation providing for the nationwide bank holiday. . . . The second step was the legislation promptly and patriotically passed by Congress confirming my proclamation and broadening my powers...
Last week many of the same advisers were back in Washington, this time to tell the incoming Democrats how to save the nation. Parading before the Senate's powerful Committee on Finance they spoke what was supposed to be the keenest, soundest thought of the country...
...There are still many evils and abuses under our economic and industrial system, which should be eliminated. However, in spite of the abuses, it is still the best in the world," said Mr. Fish. "And our Republican form of government is by for the soundest, safest, wisest, most honorable and best devised by the mind of man and under it the American people have been the freest and most contented on earth...