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...M.M.C. & M.C., Lucius Beebe sends his best congratulations on "esprit de corps." And as for the NSL, try, try again. A weekly mass meeting would be welcomed by friend and foe of the Cause, alike. Hyde Park redivivus promises instruction and amusement for young and old. And let the watchword be Pax et Veritas. J. LeB. Boyle...
...Legion delegates were parading down Michigan Avenue last week, and upsetting trucks to get ice for their beer, dropping paper sacks of water out of upper-story windows, happily messing up Chicago's hotels, their working committees worked out a program of which the essence was conservatism, the watchword. "Resell the Legion to the country." Through its committees and on the convention floor, the Legion...
...there had been any the week before, there was no doubt last week that the Administration was not to allow any foreign consideration to interfere with domestic recovery. Economic nationalism was now Washington's watchword. But the President put in many an hour discussing the world situation with Bernard Mannes Baruch, Norman Hezekiah Davis, Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Black, and many another who marched in & out of the White House. By cable and telephone the President kept in constant touch with Secretary of State Hull at the World Economic Conference in London...
...that Dr. Robinson was wrong, that they as a class suffered from no sense of inferiority. Their method consisted of a fierce militancy against a variety of foes, real and imaginary. Bunched in conference corridors, gathered around committee tables, massed in auditoriums, embattled pedagogs ex changed their 193,} watchword: "Fight!"' "We are not cowards. We are red-hlooded American citizens!" clarioned Superintendent Willard E. Givens of Oakhind. Calif. ''The old idea of the teacher as a submissive, bookish person is impossible!" cried the Association's onetime President Florence Hale. "The teacher in the new deal...
...philosopher's mentality. . . . The champion of every good, and pure, and noble, and holy and righteous cause. . . ." Sprinkled through its pages (and always over fair weather reports) was the legend "'Tis a Privilege to Live in Colorado." Bloodiest stories and pictures of corpses were sanctified by the watchword: "Crime Never Pays." On October 12, 1931 the Post's streamer read: CHRIS COLUMBUS DISCOVERS AMERICA...