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...discovers that he is not so poor as he thought. With a windfall in his lap he neglects to keep the necessary firm grip on his skittish character. He falls ridiculously in love, squanders his money on a grandiose scheme, and finally meets an appropriate but not altogether tragic fate. His author's verdict on him is stern but not unkindly: "It was his mission in life to father all forms of progress and development, and he had left behind him desolation in one form or another wherever he had gone. He was ignorant and therefore innocent; a warrior...
...which marked him as a fast, rangy end helped "sink" the Army again. 6-0. For his kindness to luckless midshipmen about to be "bilged." the class of 1909 dedicated its year book to him. His consideration was only natural, since Joseph Reeves can think of no more unhappy fate than not being in the Navy...
...political authorities much earlier. If it is something unpleasant, that also does not excite us. No states and no peoples consist of cherubs and seraphs alone. "Whether they [Swiss correspondents in Germany] continue to peep through keyholes and burrow in dirty political washing, they may be left to their fate. Their business, however, must show a sinking tendency in proportion to the realization by their lonesome readers in Germany of how little political importance attaches to Swiss opinion, and then these Swiss papers will have to return to their old profession, which is to entertain the hotel servants and shepherds...
...said in the House of Commons last week Premier James Ramsay MacDonald climbed into an airplane to hide his idealistic head in the Scottish calm of Lossiemouth. When he had safely gone two of Britain's most important statesmen rose, the first to abandon China to her fate, the second to admit that Britain is preparing...
...thing alone is certain; the right of labor to organize as provided by the famous section 57a of N.I.R.A. seems to have proven the boomerang which the framers of the Act feared that it might become. By the irony of fate the very measures which were designed to forward recovery now seem designed to be instrumental in retarding it. While the recognition of the right of Labor to organize in the face of employers' organization must be conceded, it is apparent that this right may yet mean the destruction of whatever good N.I.R.A. has so far been instrumental in accomplishing...