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...wartime position brought him into relation with the chief leaders of modern Europe. Moreover, through his former connection with Woodrow Wilson, he is associated with the most-far-sighted political vision in modern American thought. Having renounced immediate entrance in the Leaque, he remains eminently qualified to steer the delicate middle course between entanglement in foreign affairs and comparative isolation...
...Dispatch, Indianapolis News, Vincennes (Ind.) Sun, Roanoke (Va.) Times, Philadelphia Bulletin. In the Marion papers he writes under the signature of "Zip Coon" (the elder Anderson signs himself "Buck Fever of Coon Hollow"). He has had nothing published except a small pamphlet relating the astonishing adventures of a romantic steer in its effort to find congenial com pany. He refuses to dress up on week days, goes about his business clad like a laborer, but is described as a "mighty sweet little advertising solicitor...
...gypsies with a firm brown hand, was crowned "King of all the Gypsies in the null Last week, from far & near, a horde of Pharaoh's People gathered outside Los Angeles to pay King Mark due homage. Peddlers, phrenologists, fortune-tellers and silversmiths convened to eat succulent barbecued steer, to dance and to drink as much wine as they could hold. One who did himself particularly well at the jubilee was Louis Adams. King Mark's brother. Dark Louis fell to brooding over his wife from whom he had separated in Chicago two months before. She had also...
While a monster bull from Assyria was exciting admiration on one side of Chicago last week (see p. 23) a chunky little steer from New York was being admired on another side of town, at the annual International Livestock Exposition in Union Stockyards. He was Briarcliff Thickset, a glossy Aberdeen Angus eleven months old, whose 1,140 lb. of bone, gristle and good red meat were formed so well and in such good condition that the judges named him world's grand champion, Steer of the Year. Being a steer, Briarcliff Thickset was good for nothing but the slaughter...
...give us the proper chart by which to steer our educational course" President Hoover two years ago appointed the National Advisory Committee on Education. Chief question to be mulled over was whether to revive (not, as many people think, create) the Federal Department of Education which existed briefly after Congressman James Abram Garfield (see col. 3) helped establish it in 1867. Under Director Charles Riborg Mann of the American Council on Education and President Henry Suzzallo of the Carnegie Foundation, 52 savants labored and brought forth last fortnight a bulky report...