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Last week Cincinnati's City Manager Clarence O. Sherrill of Cincinnati waved his magic wand of efficiency and all city firemen found themselves invested with police powers. On a general police alarm they will issue from their firehouses and place their apparatus across 65 important street intersections, thus blocking all traffic and the escape of criminals...
...newsmen who had boasted about having dress clothes with them paraded in cutaways and silk toppers. Then, neck and hands in stocks, he was led before the judges (his parents) and made to kiss the Royal Baby (a thuglike gob clutching a gallon bottle of milk and an electrified wand). A royal bootlegger administered a stoup of vinegar & pepper from a whiskey bottle. Then Son Allan was lathered with lampblack, shaved with a wooden razor, dumped into a tank of water and beaten down a gauntlet with cotton clubs...
...eyes of a self-conscious few. In reality these are outnumbered by the many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals. Yet it is a testing wand which, if the student is earnest, often betrays many an unknown vein...
...Bonus Bill over his veto, both houses have had the bit in their teeth and have raced through a series of tax reduction, naval appropriation and other measures with complete desregard for his views. The "Big Stick" of Roosevelt's day has been pared down to a slim wand totally lacking in either persuasive or coercive powers...
...made the trip are M T Hill '30, Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, J. R. Appleton '29, Arthur Ingraham '30, C. R. Hamlin '29, F. R. Wand '30, C. M. Bennett '28, and Coach H L Cowles...