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...Vagabond turned hopefully toward the third, hitherto silent, member of the party. "I never have read the column." The Vagabond pushed away his plate of humble pie and departed, the world in ashes. The cruel words rang loudly in his old ears and when he thought thereon he wept...
...Republican headquarters, were vaguely told that Mr. Hoover has prospered by large and successful mining enterprises during his 20 years foreign travel and residence. Democratic headquarters could not give them more information. Still curious, O'Brien decided to have the Hoover past researched and publish a book thereon. He employed Hamill to travel abroad, gather material. As Hamill was completing this assignment, a quarrel with O'Brien developed. Hamill took his manuscript to a notorious Samuel Roth who, under the name of William Faro Inc., specialized in smutty publications. Last September William Faro Inc. issued a thick blue...
...same correctors my plaint specifically concern French 2. In this course an exercise in idiomatic composition is required once a week. And each week when I am landed back my corrected paper I am forced to concede the justice of about one-third the red ink spilled thereon--but with the other two-thirds I take strenuous issue. Even the class instructor's version often differs with the readers. "Just a difference of opinion between experts," or "Perhaps the reader interpreted the passage in another way--". Perfectly sound explanations, but just where dew that leave my grade? In order...
...Thorne made as though to lay hands on him, Speaker Fitzroy waved them back once, then walked between them while the whole House cheered to his presiding seat. From under the Speaker's Table, Sergeant-at-Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel produced the mighty, gleaming Mace and laid it thereon. Right glad was Sir Colin, who failed to prevent a dastard Laborite from laying hands on the sacred Mace last year (TIME, July 28, 1930), that in the General Election this naughty varlet (Laborite John Beckett) lost his seat...
Into the bonds of the railroad companies has poured a torrent of funds seeking, above all else, security of principal. Capitalists, wage-earners, fiduciary trustees and savings banks alike have found in rail bonds a safe haven for their money and a fair return thereon. But the Depression of today by its length and severity has shattered the standards of other times, undermined the confidence of generations. Quick cause for this undermining came when the railroads appealed en masse last winter to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 15% increase in freight rates, on the ground that unless this...