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...industrial police protection: to have the State pick, train and direct the officers, rent them to the companies in time of disturbance. Civil libertarians pointed out that under this plan all the taxpayers would have to pay for the officers until they were called out by an industrial concern; that persons injured by them would have redress against neither State nor private company, that the establishment of such a system would put the commonwealth in the position of merchandising police protection...
...seemed to be clinging to his office by the tips of his long sensitive fingers. Another vote last week enabled him to scramble back to at least an elbow-hold on the Prime Ministry. Scot MacDonald dodged resigning fortnight ago because his defeat in Parliament "did not concern a vital issue." Conservatives, thirsting for his blood, vowed that they would defeat him on a vital issue, namely the Trades Union Disputes Bill...
...promptly confirmed that the cars will be sold, declared that in ordering their sale "my concern was more as to the destructive effect upon the morale of the public servants than as to the actual cost of the cars...
Twenty years ago Violinist Albert Spalding decided that it was a handicap to be the son of a man so rich as James Walter Spalding, board chairman of A. G. Spalding & Bros., famed sporting goods concern.* First concerts never pay for themselves. All young musicians start out with patrons. But poor boys, even though patronized, succeed far better than rich ones in capturing popular imagination. Silver-spoon talent is regarded as unlikely. Albert Spalding's debut was received with a certain suspicion. Says he: "The audience seemed to expect me to come out in a baseball suit." The wise...
While millions in America are calling for bread and beer and the concern of every man is centered on his immediate demands, small notice is given to a grim shift in the undercurrent of the world's news. The years following 1918 found the leaders of Europe optimistic about the cause of permanent peace. Thinking men everywhere held out hope, and sound opinion declared another war highly improbable. Now, there is a different story, and the average man is inattentive...