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Airports of Entry. A certain amount of aerial smuggling (liquor, silks, jewels) passes over the 4,000-mi. Canadian-U. S. border. The two Governments so far have been unable to cope with it. For legitimate flying they have established customs ports of entry where officials swiftly, neatly, pleasantly clear the incoming planes. Canada has ten such ports of entry-Fredericton (seaplane station), N. B., Hamilton, Ont., Leaside (near Toronto), Ont., Lethbridge, Alta., Montreal (seaplane station), St. Hubert (at Montreal), Moose Jaw, Sask., Regina, Sask., Virden, Man., Winnipeg, Man. The U. S. has nine-Pembina, N. Dak., Portal...
...honors plan; at Antloch the alternation of study with outside work. So the ferment goes on. We are fast getting away from what Hutchins of Chicago calls the country club idea of college and approaching a type of education that will make men and women more fit to cope with the new civilization. --Judge
...burdens--and this was the straw that broke the camel's back, causing intervention--Haiti was without money. Always broke, she was at a continuous disadvantage in negotiating loans, and even her most astute diplomats had neither the experience nor the knowledge to cope with the shrewd European bankers. Thus she came out at the wrong end of nearly every bargain...
...enormous body of citizens might turn to Alexander Legge, prime "new patriot" of the Hoover era, the man selected to cope with the country's most pressing politico-economic problem as chairman of the Federal Farm Board. But Chairman Legge only began his task...
...other delegates were at each other's throats. It took him three days to restore harmony. On three other occasions the conference was actually declared dead-but he revived it. For besides the stupendous detail and the baffling interplay of economic facts and factors, he had to cope with his foreign colleagues' temperaments. This called for rigid self-discipline of another, subtler kind. When Germany's bristling Herr Schacht came to get his ear privately after a day's sessions he had to convince himself and Herr Schacht that he was treating him exactly as though...