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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME must continue to defer to the longstanding wish of Benjamin F. Boswell that he, his sanctum and his bookish hobbies shall not be made the subject of publicity...
Many a citizen, not unwilling to lend an ear to the plight of "prisons abroad," nevertheless wondered why the President had ever appointed one of their number especially to deal with such a subject. The answer is: In 1878, there were a dozen international conferences. One, at Berlin, had to do with peace (Disraeli v. Bis marck). Another, no longer mentioned in history books, had to do with prisons and resulted in a commission to which Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, etc. each contributed a commissioner. Mr. Chisolm was the U. S.'s fourth contribution. To succeed him, the President must...
Elocution is no longer a major sport in , U. S. schools, but it is still taught and practiced. Teachers still divide up the subject into various branches: viz., recital of poems, original oration, debate, the extemporaneous speech. The latter is always regarded as the most sporting. A boy is handed a slip of paper on which a subject is written such as "Capital Punishment."* For five minutes he is permitted to twitch nervously in his seat while his undernourished brain works feverishly to synthesize all that he has read, been told, suspected about the matter. A bell rings. He marches...
Farm Relief was given more time than any other subject. The orator began with analysis and expression of deep solicitude. He totally avoided "equalization fee." His promises: 1) "to search out the common ground"; 2) benefit of tariff; 3) waterways, principally Great Lakes to Atlantic; 4) Federal Farm Board with money to spend. ... "A nation which is spending ninety billions a year can well afford an expenditure of a few hundred millions for a workable program that will give to one-third of its population their fair share of the nation's prosperity. . . . The working out of agricultural relief...
...objected to the slant of the deck, but recovered sufficiently to have a tug of war with the mainsheet. Nip seemed worried because he couldn't find any place to bury bones and none of the works on navigation which we had gave dogs afloat any advice on the subject." She told about one of the encounters of the Elena and the Atlantic in midocean: ". . . the Atlantic came up and passed us. When our jib was reset we passed her so closely that we took her wind and we could see her sails shaking." The Atlantic, 185-footer, winner...