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...real or exaggerated grievance, the rest of the remedy must be supplied by the team itself. The ideology of professionalism,--of taking every advantage of the enemy, whether foul of fair,--has no place in Harvard athletics. And it is up to the coaches, who have been far from spotless in the past, to set an example of sportsmanship to their charges, as well as to inspire them with the lust...
...ability than the political transients who serve as His Majesty's Ministers, the dismissal of Sir Christopher Bullock last week implied, at the least, some sort of scandalous corruption somewhere. Nevertheless, because no permanent official of the Civil Service can well be charged with corruption without tarnishing its spotless record, Prime Minister Baldwin, after ordering Sir Christopher dismissed, made a ringing public announcement. "I am glad to observe," cried John Bull in the flesh, "that no question of corruption was involved...
...manage U. S. investment trusts in 1936 the investigation will be a painful ordeal. Even if their own records are spotless, the records of their trusts are probably not. Most trusts have bought other trusts, and the reason they were able to buy them was generally that the trust for sale had been either mismanaged or plundered. SEC intends to study not only present managements but those of predecessor trusts...
...Chamber of new Premier Leon Blum, a prosperous and infirm old Socialist whose spidery limbs and thin beaked nose give him the air of a flamingo. Flapping gestures complete the illusion and Premier Blum last week was also bird-like in his air of being exquisitely preened and valeted. Spotless were his pearl-grey spats. Faint was his aroma of eau de Cologne. He had just set up one of the very largest Cabinets ever formed in France, a ministry in which so many Radical Socialists and Socialists had found places (along with a self-styled "Dissident Communist") that...
...work, Sapolio's decline had definitely begun. As powdered scouring soaps entered the market, Sapolio sales dropped steadily, amounting in 1932 to only $300,000, less than the oldtime advertising budget alone. Morgan's experimented with a powder in 1913, in 1915, and again in 1930, but Spotless Town had lost its appeal. But not until this year did the company develop a new and improved powder for which it was willing to try another Sapolio revival...