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...telephone and telegraph operators on Enchanted Hill will be just as rushed on the Chief's 70th birthday as any other day. For the man who has given freer play to every whim and ambition than any American of his time holds no dav pure holiday. And he has said: "The time to retire is when God retires you and not before...
...warden, reported to Harold Height, new Democratic sheriff, on disconcerting conditions in the Monmouth County jail. Of the 90 prisoners, 35 had electric cookers, sauce pans, broilers, cutlery & napery in their cells. They all entertained guests at any hour of day or night, kept late hours, gave parties at whim. Prisoners George Parker, Elijah Thompson, John Leddy, Charles High, John Walling were absent. (Later the night keeper found Parker who "when we counted them in the cells, was in the kitchen. When we counted them in the kitchen, Parker was in his cell. So of course we couldn...
...question of free speech and free press very obviously enters this case in spite of the Dean's contention. His latest reported statement that merely my personal misconduct was involved is ludicrous, inasmuch as it immediately brands "Spectator" as my personal property, subject to my every whim and unaffected by others. Dean Hawkes expelled me because I was editor of "Spectator" and because "Spectator" criticized strongly where it saw fit. The Dean's twisting of the issue for every occasion only marks the last resort of a person forced to attempt to justify an unjustifiable action." --Columbia Spectator...
...sunk and another damaged by aircraft attack and shell fire. The big submarines had proved efficient at scouting, but four out of five were lost in action. Planes had operated from carriers as far as 1,000 miles at sea, a record, yet their usefulness had been at the whim of weather...
While the competitive system seems to set mere men at the whim of imponderable elements beyond their ken or control and give free rein to huge competing combines that must, by their very nature, reach the point of saturation, obsolescence, and final destruction, a survey of present day democracy gives pause to those who wish to believe that in public ownership or control there lies a solution for periodic industrial collapse. Legislatures composed of individuals apparently forced to spend as much as possible for the delight of local constituents make the trusteeship of common welfare a grisly political farce...