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...having to let newcomers-the "mushroom" ministers-participate. Least of all are they pleased to admit Sam Raingo. His wealth and his familiarity with Andy Clyth are against him. Andy having been obliged to bring Sam into the game, would not teach him the rules even if he could afford to politically...
...unless the number of meals served is proportionate to the equipment; and it seems unreasonable to carry it on at a loss if no social purpose is promoted thereby. For this object the Hall can provide what commercial restaurants cannot; for it can furnish club tables which they cannot afford to reserve. But at present the students do not seem to regard meals as social occasions, or have any desire to get together at such times. There are, however, signs that they are becoming weary of what they call eating around, and in fact the number of men taking their...
...Chaplin). While Al Jolson mouths "Mammy, Mammy" on the screen, the audience hears Al Jolson throat "Mammy, Mammy" out of what sounds like a loud radio. It is the Vitaphone, now well on its way to fame as purveyor of "canned" music to theatres too small to afford orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization. Old Bill with his familiar pipe...
Allen W. Dulles is no dullard. He resigned from the U. S. diplomatic corps because he could not afford to be promoted to the post of Counselor of the Legation at Peking. His salary- was to be $8,000 a year. Neither is Mr. Dulles extravagant. He can easily live on his salary, but with his rise in rank and diplomatic importance he must entertain accord- ingly and put on the swank that is expected of a legate of the U. S. Said he in a letter to Secretary of State Kellogg: "The financial burden involved in the acceptance...
...said, "to the control of the raw material by packers and an apparent intent on their part to attempt to control the manufacture of this product." Cost of Cure. The most impor tant problem facing hospital administration is the caring for people of moderate means who can not afford the cost of private rooms in hospitals and do not wish to suffer what seemed to them the humiliation of free wards. Alba Boardman Johnson, onetime (1911-19) president of the Bald win Locomotive Works and for years trustee of the Jefferson Medi cal College and Hospital, Philadelphia, suggested that wealthy...