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...involve other issues. It may affect the whole legislative program in Congress through log-rolling by the farm bloc. It is likely to be an important factor in the Congressional elections next fall. Its influence may go even further...
...famed "Angel of Labrador," explorer, missioner. He wrote in a letter: "We always stood for keeping Sunday as a day of rest among our deep-sea fishermen, and all this froth talk by selfish and self-indulgent people about Blue Laws and the throwing about of cynicism can never affect the issue. Those people and those collections of people called nations, where Sunday is kept as a day of rest, are the best and happiest every time...
...resolutions, which are purely tentative, have been worded in the following manner: "Whereas, intercollegiate football has become so popularized and commercialized as seriously to affect the chief educational purposes of the colleges; Whereas, history and experience teach that healthful, recreational, competitive sports, die when afflicted with professionalism; Whereas, promoters of professional football have this fall for the first time induced undergraduates to leave college for the purpose of participating in professional games; now therefore let it be resolved. That the educational institutions of this country be urged to unite and combat these tendencies to overemphasize and professionalize their competitive athletics...
...announced the discovery of an alloy. He claims for it that it is only slightly heavier than aluminum, much lighter than brass or iron, that it will withstand a pressure of more than 50 tons to the square inch, that it does not corrode, that earth acids do not affect it, that it takes a polish like silver, and that it can be manufactured to sell at about a dollar a pound. He calls it Mac-L-ite. If his claims are true, and if he engages a competent lawyer, he will be rich...
...Pennsylvania. Under his feet is practically all the hard coal in the U. S. If it is in his power to take some decisive step, it is also in his power to determine the future of the entire anthracite industry in the U. S., and in doing that to affect powerfully for good or ill the prosperity of his state...