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...night for sailors to visit Chatham's First Congregational Church on Wednesday night. Speaking of sailors, since when have Coast Guard warrant boatswains been exemplified with the title of captain? My only objection. Suggest you read up on naval terms. Would it be possible for the painter to explain the reason for the honor so nobly bestowed upon the Coast Guard? Or does she try to convey to the looking public that members of the Coast Guard all look as if they have been stuffed with "brown bread, baked beans, coffee...
...Mary Zuk formed the Women's League Against the High Cost of Living, began picketing butchers' shops and branches of packing plants. They demanded a 20% cut in the price of meats. All but one shop in town closed. Angry butchers petitioned AAA to explain to Mrs. Zuk and friends that they were not responsible for the price of meat. AAA refused to admit its responsibility for meat prices...
...Social Frontier (progressive education). Finally, for the "intelligent teacher" was prescribed one businessmen's "confidential news letter service," one Left Wing service. How any teacher, intelligent or otherwise, was to get through this mass of reading and still have time left for his classes, Dr. Miller did not explain...
...thorough study he has made of the economic conditions of the Islands. It sounds impressive, but the truth is that the export of rum never amounted to much, if any, more than 4% of the per annum exports of the Islands. ... I will leave it to you to explain how the loss of 4% of a region's annual exports can produce an economic wreck. . . . The very prosaic fact is that the manufacture of sugar constitutes the chief means of livelihood in these Islands and that the rum produced is and always has been a byproduct...
...morning fortnight ago Travelers Bank on Rue de la Paix, Paris posted a blue-penciled sign on its door: "The bank will open tomorrow at noon." But the bank did not open the next day, nor the next nor the next. No one could explain why it had closed, least of all its employes. Finally on complaint of some annoyed customers who wanted their money, French officials closed it tighter than ever by sealing the vaults. Apparently the only person who could solve the mystery was the bank's founder, principal owner and undisputed boss, Bertrand Coles Neidecker...