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...week. Each ship was laden with "inexpensive (and expensive) articles to be distributed as prizes." (Rotarians love to play games.) "Among other things sent in," announced The Rotarian (official monthly), "was a topcoat, rather a useful thing to have on an Atlantic trip. Sometimes the evenings are a bit cool and the regular constitutional round the decks has to be a brisk...
...they had fought against them before. But the danger was still far to the north. That, without even fighting, they should abandon their homes, gather in refugee camps, become objects of charité? well, a fine man, a great man was "M'sieu Jean," but just a little bit an outsider, hardly quite able to realize how very many seasons of high water they had seen come...
When the paper money of a nation rises on international exchange, it is as though the paper had been dipped in clinging gold dust, making it more prized in gold-greedy eyes. Soon men will work longer, or will give more in exchange for a bit of this enriched paper. Unfortunately the process is slow, unequal at first in the case of different places or commodities, and therefore highly painful. II Duce, courageous, sought last week to get the inevitable over as quickly as possible by jamming down prices and wages with one fell thrust...
...hardly necessary to argue that journalistic elaborations and literary interpretations, not to mention political theorizing, are all, just now, a bit beside the point. The case, itself, is a single instance containing within its own history all the elements necessary to its reasonable settlement. The defendants are two individuals without,-- as far as judicial process is concerned,-- the attributes of race and social position. The mechanisms of the judicial system are side-issues, too, and the Governor, in whose hands the matter now is, will do well to ignore them for the present. He needs but look to the original...
...Philadelphia, taking part in the American Henley. The Crimson lightweights may put up a close race, for the defeat they suffered Saturday was not a bad one. DeNormandie was stroking his first race, and the crew, which kept up well for about a mile, found the pace a bit too hot near the finish. The eight should do better at Philadelphia...