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...true that when you were investigating this man you found what appeared to be excitement and apparent confusion, but this is a rather common thing among people of that color, and it is quite possible they are a bit noisy in their acclaim of the one who brought about their deliverance from a life of shame, "in many cases." I say that such an influence in any community is a mighty good thing, and even though a bit noisy, it should be tolerated with a great degree of sympathy...
This ancient bit of Federal law last week turned up as grit in the gear box of the Government's whole farm relief program. Did it mean that the Treasury could not pay Domestic Allotment bounties to farmers for plowing up cotton and cutting wheat acreage, without first deducting any debts these farmers happened to owe the Government? If so, some $200,000,000 in bounties would never leave the Treasury and farmers would get only a batch of receipted bills on their Federal loans. Or were bounties not "claims" against which farm loans could be collected...
...sleep. Flashlamps were making him flinch. His temper was running short. President Roosevelt had to command him to get a night's sleep when he flew to Hyde Park fortnight ago (TIME, August 14). Even the fatherly New York Times last week advised him to "ease up a bit...
...longest they ever had. But they reminded newshawks that the "Royal Scot's" 300-mi. trip between London and Carlisle (80 mi. from Edinburgh) is the longest non-stop train-trip in the world, with the train averaging 60 m.p.h. Bragged Stoker Jackson: "But she can do a bit more than that. We've had her up to 100." "Better say 90," cautioned Engineer Gilbertson. "This is for the newspapers." Said Stoker Jackson: "Make it 90. We do more, you see, making up lost time some days, but if folks in England knew we did it might...
...great Unitarians and had contributed to the worthy from the stores laid up by their slave-trading, rum-running, bundling ancestors, were losing their grip. The day of the Copley-Plaza arrived, and with it cosmetics, and the knowledge that the world is large. Entertainment was a bit gayer, a bit grander, though never ostentatious. And every Back Bay Lass chosen for the Vincent Club looked a bit closer for the right undergraduate from Cambridge. For then Boston was Harvard...