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...barrel went off with a smart bang: Colonel Lindbergh, famed for his Press-shyness, had deliberately sought "publicity" by releasing his telegram to the newspapers before giving the President the courtesy of receiving it. The second barrel emitted a weak weasel: the Colonel's telegram was "in error" in its statement that the President had canceled the contracts. True, the President had not canceled the contracts but Washington and the world well knew that Postmaster General Farley would never have dared to sign the cancellation without the approval of his President. ¶ Besides his airmail action the President gave...
...Bismarck's Second Reich did not interfere with the frontiers of the various States. This was one great error of the Second Reich. It is the historic task of our time," said he, "to create a powerful, national, unified State in place of the federal State existing heretofore. In the new Germany there is no place for federal States or for the borders they had. . . . Such institutions might even have a pernicious effect nowadays as a stimulus to Monarchist Party aims which are inimical to the people...
...green chemise with pink thread. In Love's Progress, or The Education of Araminta a serious-minded, Ruskin-loving girl runs the gamut of arty life, ends as the wedded wife of a Victorian-lover. Cupid's Changeling, or The Lady's Mistake recounts the comic error of a lady novelist who took a stranger to her bed, thinking he was a famed cinemactor...
...scholarship since September, 1932. It has seemed incredible that of all the possible ways of saving money, Harvard should fix upon the closing of the library, the very heart of the University. It has seemed even more incredible that it should persist in the measure long after its error had been almost universally recognized...
...type of teacher relates to the second point he makes, that the President is a scientist, and therefore a little at sea among humane studies. Of this one must say that there might be a grain of truth in it, but probably is not. A scientist could be in error on the matter, but the error would not be the one Mr. Chase thinks he sees. It is not that research is valuable to a teacher in science and unnecessary to a teacher in the humanities, but that it should be pursued in a different way, with a different mental...