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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the Pennsylvania Society of New York) again postponed definition of his Farm Policy, declared the objectives of his Business Policy. Best lines: "Stop being half way for a sort of creeping socialism and half way for private enterprise. Get down on one side of the fence. ... If any businessman violates the law name him, indict him, convict him, fine him, jail him. But stop bringing the whole of a group into disrepute and discouragement. . . . Admit that excessive public expenditures have to be tapered off gradually. And start doing it. Start just a trend toward solvency...
...went the four, zigzagging, varying speed, roaring steel at each other. The cruisers kept dashing in from all angles like hounds baiting a boar. In Spec's guts, the 62 British seamen-the youngest was 15, the oldest 72, every sort from captain to cabin boy-hollered their happy heads off every time they felt the Spec take...
...skinny, tired, nervous, rundown? Try a bottle of sarsaparilla and watch those muscles grow." That is the sort of thing famed Hormone-Maker Russell Earl Marker of Penn State expected to see splashed all over the papers last week. Reason: he had just told chemists about his new, cheap, artificial production of three powerful sex hormones (testosterone, progesterone and desoxy-corticosterone), from sarsaparilla root compounds. A boon to doctors, Professor Marker's synthetic hormones will cost far less than natural sheep and cow products. Professor Marker warned Penn State's publicity department to warn the press...
Absolutely, Jimmy Bowen had done a sweetheart of a reporting job, the first of its sort the world had ever heard. President Roosevelt heard it in his library at Hyde Park. A United Air Lines pilot, flying 11,000 feet over Nebraska, picked it up with his auxiliary receiver, relayed it in bits to his passengers. Jimmy's story reached Timbuctu and Berlin as well, putting the Propaganda Ministry's nose completely out of joint. In Washington, Jimmy's mother heard his voice-for the first time in years...
Dean Sperry discussed the nonsectarian character of the Divinity School, raising the question whether an independent school of this sort "can effectively serve the formally organized denominations into which American Protestantism is divided...