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...precise moment that the President held the fateful slip of paper in his hands, his annual budget message was being droned aloud by Reading Clerks in Congress (see p. 11). No longer, however, did the figures of that budget total up as they had totaled when he gave it a last pat of approval and dispatched it to the Capitol. The Supreme Court's 6-to-3 decision had rendered the $547,000,000 worth of processing taxes, on which the President had counted, nothing more than a row of nine ciphers. Because no one yet knew how many...
...hours, which 1, as a freshman theme writer spent grudgingly and fruitlessly, I have tried to help him. At first our united efforts were not successful in lifting his grades much above G. Then it was that I began asking him about the type of themes his instructor read aloud in class and about the latter's comments. What he told me and what our recent experiments have shown confirm my suspicious of long standing. This English A instructor admires what may be termed "smart writing...
...After a 30-minute recess Court Solicitor Reed arose, described the case as the Government saw it. Liberal as well as Conservative Justices took a hand at questioning him. Asked Conservative Justice McReynolds: ''Who fixed the [processing] tax, Mr. Solicitor?" "Congress fixes the formula," Mr. Reed read aloud the language of the law. "The farmer buys all sorts of things," snorted Mr. Justice McReynolds. "He buys silk stockings and woolen coats. Which is it that controls...
...Cooper following that irresistible path of least resistance and just about to settle down to the sweets of married life. As the story goes, one evening Cooper was reading aloud to his wife a novel of English society. And here the Vagabond would stress this ever-growing tendency of some of our modern novels: They often do for us just what they did for our budding genius. He said: "What stuff I believe I could write a better story myself...
Sports were forbidden and the "blue" laws were strictly enforced. The day was devoted to church activities and sober conversation about the good fortune of the colonists. During the holiday dinner, 'was the custom in many households for the father to read sermons aloud...