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...would prevent a serious blow to labor during this crisis, I should not approve the bill. . . . It cannot be made effective for many months or even years. It is not only changing horses while crossing a stream but the other horse would not arrive for many months...
Next day it took the Senate three hours' debate to reach a second Bonus vote. The galleries were packed with ex-soldiery. Republican Senator Hastings of Delaware, upholding the President, complained that veterans would "blow in their loans on automobiles and riotous living." He exclaimed: "I do know many ex-soldiers who would steal their certificates from their wives and go out and spend the night with some other woman." Howls and hisses descended upon him from the galleries...
...first Congressman to introduce a bill for a Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution. From alcohol he leaped to narcotics. Now, 60, a confirmed zealot, he has homes in Los Angeles and Manhattan, communities salty with drugs. Last week he was in Manhattan to blow a large blast against the Jericho of dope...
...Payson Bradstreet, 100, oldest Yale graduate (class of 1853, which had 108 graduates), oldest Ohio lawyer; in Cincinnati, Ohio. His most famed historic experience was a chess game with Abraham Lincoln in 1858. This occurred in a hotel room in Hannibal. Mo. When Mr. Lincoln heard his steamboat whistle blow, he yielded the game. Oldest Yale graduate is now Dr. Virgil Maro Dow, 97, of New Haven (class of 1856, to which the late Chauncey Mitchell Depew belonged...
...college. Summer earnings, because of general business depression, have been below average. In addition, the opening of two new houses has decreased restaurant employment to a degree. Next year holds no promise of improvement, and the opening of the five new house units will be a great blow to students working in eating places. The administrators of Lowell and Dunster Houses have rejected the plan of having student waiters. Among the several reasons given to support this attitude it was not mentioned that student waiters do not harmonize with high tables and heraldic trappings. Longer breakfast hours in vogue...