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Further down towards University Hall an original gentleman trots along in a beret, very proud of the scornful looks and sotto-voce remarks wasted on him. Up the steps of Widener stamps an immaculate professor in an equally immaculate light grey felt on his way to the furthermost stacks of the Library...
...unanimously endorsed. Dr. Cadman, a less intense, a more mundane orator, had quips and fancies to offer at St. Martin's Church in Trafalgar Square, London. He opened a "question box," a sort of forum during which he offered to answer pontifically questions thrown at him viva voce. Verbally he did what he has been doing in the columns of the New York Herald Tribune* for more than a year. Some Cadmanswers, some Cadmonitions: ¶Rotary gatherings "are not intellectual triumphs. They are daily lunches." He has often attended them. ¶ "The evolution flurry has done one great good...
...most potent banks, interested in the current situation of world business and finance. Knowing the routes of commerce is of no less importance to them than is the neighborhood route to the morning's milkman. And the best way to learn, they have wisely decided, is viva voce, by friendly conversations...
...Passed, viva voce, a bill creating the Foreign Trade Service. Its purpose is to unify activities for promotion of trade, and it will be under the Department of Commerce, of which Herbert Hoover is Secretary. In debate, Representative Black of Texas snorted at the salaries of $10,000 and generous perquisites offered to the advance agents of commerce. Representative Rayburn of Texas countered by citing the rice industry of California as one of thousands of examples of the benefits secured by our foreign trade agents. Representative Hoch of Kansas was author of the bill...
...resolution had become a far more dangerous thing to the Republicans than the original resolution to which Senator Smoot had agreed. But the temper of the Senate was apparent from the votes on the King and the Norris amendments, and the Republicans allowed the resolution to be passed viva voce...