Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chadwick, 44, son of a late Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, veteran of the brave but futile U. S. Siberian Expeditionary Force of 1918. Legionnaire Chadwick was chosen because: 1) in calibre he was considered several cuts above some of his recent predecessors; 2) The Kingmakers thought his selection would finally squelch the Legion's No. 1 Pretender and rebel, Detroit's Corporation Counsel Raymond J. Kelley. Last week Pretender Kelley and every other rival candidate withdrew without firing a word. With King Chadwick safely made, the serious minority at the convention then got down...
...Carey nevertheless thought he had done well for them: Philco had threatened to move out of Philadelphia, had already sublet its work to nonunion, out-of-town shops, and union men & women had been selling stuffed dates, shining shoes, going on relief. Principal union advantage: wealthy, fair-minded Trucker James Patrick Clarke is to arbitrate disputes, see to it that Philco keeps most of its production in Philadelphia...
...signing up for all the periodicals. He remembered his initial trip across the Square, how he had wanted to take a taxi back to the Yard; he recalled the sign he'd put on his door warning solicitors of his full contentment. He signed as he thought of the first time he had heard the sound three trolley cars make when on their way to bed together; of the last vestiges of the Tercentenary in the Yard and how he could never pronounce that word; of the first week of college packed with inspiring speeches that always began with...
...buildings, in the social life of its myriad inhabitants, and in the attitude of the University as a whole toward life and liberalism, that upperclassmen and graduates can only growl feebly when they read them. Like communism the word indifference has a kind of African mystery to it, as thought if analyzed, it might explode in one's face and release snakes and tigers. Really it is the tool of description for those who do not understand a social condition easily explained by Henry Adams, the Porcellian Club, or Samuel Eliot Morison's history. It is applied to the student...
Yesterday afternoon Harlow drove the squad through a rigorous drill, in spite of the coming hurricane. The drill was finally halted when a section of the fence blew across the field and almost demolished the "C" and "D" teams. Enough was enough, thought chief Richard...