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...government under Prime Minister Baldwin. Destiny seemed to be working in President Hoover's behalf, for at the very moment of his Arlington speech, the Baldwin government was being voted down by the British electorate. Past experience has shown that Britain's Labor Party, now on the threshold of power, is less suspicious of naval reduction than the Tories...
...told how millions of "young men, women and children" assemble to hear the Lucky Strike radio orchestra, the Letter pointed out that "once attention is centred on the dance program, a flow of tainted testimonials begins to poison the air." Young women have already dieted themselves to the very threshold of tuberculosis, yet these "future mothers of the nation" are encouraged to "substitute" cigarets for "wholesome food." Furthermore, American Tobacco Co. "flaunts" billboard posters of an "adolescent girl" smoking cigarets. Says the summing up: "Yes, it's a shocking business indeed to urge cigarets upon the youth of the nation...
...April evening in Manhattan five years ago, a slight, aquiline-featured man returned from a theatre to his room. No sooner had he crossed the threshold than lines of anguish twisted across his face and he fell dead from a heart attack. His death was unforeseen, but many of his friends believed that his health had been gravely impaired during the investigation of alleged construction faults in Nebraska's new $9,000,000 state capitol at Lincoln. That building, the friends claimed, was Architect Goodhue's sovereign design, imbued with all his prowess and pride. To hear...
...undergraduate life insures youthful tone to a section of University Hall all too likely under ordinary circumstances to become a formidable monster in the eyes of some students. The transitory aspect of the appointment also enables graduates in doubt between academic or nonacademic careers to pause on the threshold a moment before plunging one way or the other...
...been no part of mine to build castles of the future but rather to measure the experiments, the actions and the progress of men through the cold and uninspiring microscope of fact, statistics and performance." Then he said he really believed that "the Western World stands upon the threshold of a new era of advancement. . . . And the outlook socially, as well as economically and politically, is hopeful. Education and learning, decrease in poverty and the ideal of equal opportunity are providing the impulses of ambition in our peoples...