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...Ickes that big petroleum producers were squeezing little ones, that while the oil code increased costs to producers $125,000,000 a year, $486,000,000 in price increases were being passed on to consumers. With North Dakota's Nye he went to the White House with another complaint. He felt that NRA was injuring the small businessman. The President offered both Senators seats on a new supervisory board, which both refused. It was then agreed that some anti-trust teeth would have to be fitted into the Blue Eagle's bill at the coming session...
Matter of complaint by Japanese is the habit foreign devils have of calling the Empire's Princes by whatever part of their name suits the foreigners' fancy. All Japanese Princes have given names ending in hito (benevolent male) and the no Miya with which they are all tagged means "Prince of." They are Prince of what comes before the no Miya, as Edward is Prince of Wales. Thus the babe christened last week Akihito Tsugu no Miya is "Aki the benevolent Male, Prince of Tsugu" Aki means "Enlightened." Tsugu identifies the babe as Crown Prince...
...Editor Howe was tired of running a small-town daily. Said he: "People bother me. I don't know why Tom Eglinger didn't get his paper night before last and I don't want to be bothered by his complaint." By that time, the Globe was making $30,000 a year. Editor Howe sold it to his staff for $50,000, used the money to buy a farm on the Missouri River which he called Potato Hill. At Potato Hill he promptly resumed his marathon of printed discontent in E. W. Howe's Monthly...
Preponderant mass of conservative U. S. student opinion was represented by the National Student Federation, composed of heads of student government and other delegates from 175 colleges & universities. Federal Commissioner of Education Zook greeted them with this pronouncement: "My complaint about college students is that they are too darned docile. They are too easily bossed. They don't create enough problems for the college and university administration...
Since calibre of adventure rather than fluidity of style has been the criterion for the excerpts chosen, a corresponding absence of uniform literary merit calls forth neither surprise nor complaint. Side by side with such brilliant prose as that in which De Quincey illumined the mysteries of laudanum, we find the halting periods of Kavanaugh, whose bravery saved the British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies...