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...than Cuba's volatile young voters could stand. A combined strike of students and teachers at Havana University was promptly made political, with a demand for the resignations of Mendieta, Batista and two members of the Cabinet. The popping of bombs in Havana suddenly accelerated to a steady sputter. The strike spread swiftly down through Cuba's entire State educational system, including even the National Kindergarten Association, taking in both teachers and students to the number of more than 300,000. Frightened, President Mendieta gave the strikers the resignations of the two Cabinet members, sat tight...
Whenever the question of parentage of that good Democratic institution the Federal Reserve Act is raised within hearing of Carter Glass, fireworks are sure to sputter. The choleric Senator from Virginia is the Federal Reserve's traditionally jealous father. But Oklahoma's aging Robert Latham Owen never lets him forget that he sat in the U. S. Senate in the days of the New Freedom* and owns one of the four gold pens with which President Wilson made the Act the law of the land. To that, the Senator snorts that every fundamental Owen contribution to the plan...
...brilliant eccentric among his fellow-sociologists, but he was not even a name to the U. S.-at-large.* When "Technocracy" flashed in its pan (1932), its brief publicity lit up Veblen's name by reflection, brought him a posthumous and garbled notoriety. But his reputation did not sputter out with Technocracy. Author Dorfman's detailed and scholarly book is the first full-length study of Thorstein Veblen and his views, but it will not be the last...
Weak with joy, Coach Little managed to sputter into a radio microphone: "If there's a happier man in this world, he must be in Heaven...
...other pictures of their ilk, will begin to question the gentleman's veracity. One might even believe that "Ace of Aces" was produced when air-warfare extravaganzas--were in vogue, and that Radio Pictures hesitated to inflict it on audiences until more successful brethren had been forgotten. Engines roar, sputter, machine guns bark, and planes go down in flames, but the only redeeming feature is Richard Dix. Even worshippers of the red corpuscles however, might be induced to pity, the protruding jaw and the twisted snarl, which, has already been used to such advantage, when its ineffectiveness in one asinine...