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...word of mouth but by a series of pitilessly clear charts which told in bold, graphic fashion the story of Mr. Crain's sorry administration. The Columbia pedagog's diagrams showed that the ratio of homicide convictions to known homicides had dropped to its lowest ebb in 25 years during the first year (1930) that Mr. Crain was prosecutor for New York County. Percentage of convictions for robbery, burglary, grand larceny and assault had done likewise...
...were good fellows and he was glad to be in at the kill. But this ending of the year is a trying time. All courses seem to end with the fall of a dynasty or the decay of a lofty empire. May seems to bring with it the turbid ebb and flow of human tragedy along with divisionals. The Vagabond at such a time is wont to cram his briar, lounge in a chair and stare at the smoke as it floats in fragile clouds to the ceiling. A college generation is passing. That this is all foolish sentimentalism...
...reaches Washington, and then for only 48 hours, will Prajadhipok assume the style of King. Sensible & modern, His Majesty will not use in the U. S. his more poetic titles, inherited from long ago: King of the North and of the South, Descendant of Buddha, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-Brother of the Sun, Possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas. (Resembling in theory the Pope's triple-tiered tiara, multiple umbrellas are in many parts of the Orient the symbol of regal power...
Surely you have the privilege of selecting your correspondence to appear in the Letter column but we did give you credit for not only a more discriminating taste but also better judgment. Has real news reached such a low ebb that you must resort to matters of this kind? NATHALIE M. THOMPKINS Westfield...
...post having fun on a Paris vacation. Secretary Washington, 29, Rhodes Scholar, was in charge. Only four years in the U. S. foreign service, he had been in Rio less than a twelvemonth. He did his conscientious best to keep the State Department in Washington posted on the ebb and flow of the civil war. It looked to him as if the rebels would be defeated by the Federal forces of President Washington Luis and he so informed Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson...