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...students and the A. B. C. have set themselves to clean up Cuba of its many curses: such as lottery, universal gambling, brothels and dives, vile publications as Politico Comica and La Scinana, graft, politics that exploit Cuba for personal gain, regardless of public advantage. And they seek a system of liberal education, purity of the press, a wholesome young manhood and young womanhood of Cuba Libre, the total eradication of snobocracy, a nation-wide sense of honor, true and devoted,men and women. Then they will have gained Freedom, Liberty, Justice and Honor, as few nations yet possess...
Heart of that measure was the provision whereby the President was empowered to license interstate industries and thus club recalcitrant minorities into good behavior on pain of putting them out of business altogether. On motion of Senator McAdoo the Finance Committee cut the heart clean out of the bill. The vote was 12-to-7, with Utah's King, Texas' Connally, Oklahoma's Gore, North Carolina's Bailey, Virginia's Byrd, Missouri's Clark, Democrats all, deserting their President. Final elimination of the license system would leave the Government powerless to enforce its industrial...
...crack clippers, booming under sails like cumulus cloud banks. Until late April the others followed: 16 Finnish, two German, one Swedish, carrying a total of 900,000 bags of wheat. Some were so old that the sailors could not chip the hull for fear the chipping hammers would go clean through the plates. Built from 16 to 45 years ago, sailed on a capital representing scrap value, the ships were uninsured.† Their masters knew they could not drive them for fear of losing one of their two suits of old sails, losing all the voyage's small margin...
...great decline. Thereafter every few months Mr. Mitchell would dig more stock certificates from his strong box, send more fat bundles to the House of Morgan to bolster the loan. Into the Morgan vaults, batch by batch, went tens of thousands of shares. When his strong box was clean he turned over mortgages on his three homes. Last week he still owed J. P. Morgan & Co. $5,852,538.38 which the collateral fails to cover by about $1,000,000. Mr. Steuer makes the point that because of an unselfish effort to avert a disastrous crash in City Bank shares...
...These flames do not only illuminate the final end of the old etra, they also light up the new. Never before have the young men had so good a right to clean up the debris of the past. . . . The old goes up in flames, the new shall be fashioned from the flame in our hearts. ... As you had the right to destroy the books, you had the duty to support the government. The fire signals to the entire world that the November revolutionaries have sunk to earth and a new spirit has arisen...