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Post Office. To astonished Warm Springers, well-pleased at the growth of their village, the President began talking about a new post office, wondered why they had not demanded one. "What have we got?" he asked, "we have got a little over a year left," went on to explain that the next Administration might not provide a post office, and that if Warm Springers demanded hard enough, he might take Jim Farley by the neck "and squeeze a new post office...
Just before his rather dramatic exit, Shaw chose to rationalize his recent actions and to explain why he was heroically leaving now in an article about the business in general in the Saturday Evening Post...
...crib. To declare that big U. S. fortunes are ending in the natural course of things is bad news for those who advocate ending them by "proletarian" revolution. Far less detailed than its predecessor, also far livelier, The Ending of Hereditary American Fortunes goes back a long way to explain its title. Key of Myers' argument is the U. S. tradition against special privileges that are due to accident of birth...
...Saturday, the H.A.A. doesn't have to worry just a present where its next athletic dollar is coming from. The reason for the ticket-scramble is obvious: the prospect of a hard-fought, even-terms game with plenty of color added. This difference in game forecasts is adequate to explain the difference in turnstile revolutions...
Mira went on to explain why the army has always been so prominent in Spanish politics. "Constant invasions of Spain," he said, "made a strong army necessary, and the army became so powerful that it has always remained an important factor in Spanish politics...