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...hard to remedy, and more of the same kind are likely to appear. But if the Student Council keeps after the situation, and with the officials of the Library now awaking to the possibilities of making the College library amount to what its name implies, the hopes for better, swifter, and more complete service are improving every...
...speech last night left no twilight zone of doubt or uncertainty as to his meaning. He tossed aside with contempt the cloak of specious argument with which he dressed his initial proposal of judicial reorganization. Last night heard no plea for the expediting of judicial business, no claim for swifter-footed justice more accessible to the poor man, no proposals for the relief of senility on the Federal bench...
Meanwhile in Germany the Colonel kept up his chosen work, raised his glass at a dinner of German pursuit plane pilots in this toast, "Here's to bombers, may they fly slower; and here's to pursuit planes, may they fly swifter...
...House did as the President wished-insisted on a two-year extension without emasculation-it appeared that NRA's death might be swifter. For the Senate had passed the nine-months resolution only because Senator Borah and other NRA enemies had agreed to it as a price for not fighting any form of NRA renewal. Said Senator Pat Harrison, Administration whip...
...Swifter than Pele in reacting to Roosevelt charm was ex-Socialist Upton Sinclair, now Democratic nominee for Governor of California. On the night before a visit to Hyde Park Mr. Sinclair, by his own ad- mission, was nervous and slept badly. At 5 o'clock the next afternoon he entered the President's study at Hyde Park for an hour's conference. It was two hours before he emerged. He stripped off his coat, sat down with newshawks and began to burble: "I had the most interesting two hours' talk I ever had in my life...