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Regrettably, by the hand of fate assisted by a grimier hand nearer home, the mark of Boston's salty fame has had strange bedfellows in the public press: Benny the Alligator, James the Polecat, The (Sacred) Owl, the (Sacred) Ibis, and other stuffed nonsense. Weary of swinging in the winds of State House oratory, the grand old effigy could have taken its leave, alone and in honor. It deserved better than to disappear with a zoo-full of mildewed bridge-prizes. For the sacred cod, aloof and unsullied, is no kin to these doubtful deities, these gods brought down...
...that while Sister Lois is about to get a man, Sister Eva (Fay Bainter) desperately needs one. Since her sweetheart was killed in Flanders, pinch-faced Eva has been told off to nurse her War-blinded brother and end her days in suppressed spinsterhood. Eva might have escaped her fate had not her last chance, an ex-naval officer, shot himself when his garage business failed...
...plan will go down as a failure along with the Hoover Farm Board. If all prices start to rise on a broad front, Secretary Wallace will be able to accelerate the advance of farm values, get credit for a shining success. The major factors which will decide the economic fate of the farmer, according to Pundit Walter Lippmann, are "the monetary policy of the administration and of the Federal Reserve System, by the policy of the Government in respect to tariffs and trade agreements and international debts and by a whole series of measures dealing with railroads, real estate indebtedness...
...late!" he roared. "We don't need you any longer in molding the fate of the nation...
Stripping the report of the buncombe which must inevitably attend any institutional effort at self preservation, there remains its very sound protest against unintelligent slashing. An example of this evil was afforded by the recent fate of the Ornithology Department at the Boston State House, which subsisted through halcyon decades on an, annual five thousand dollars, and very gratifyingly accumulated a surplus of several times that amount through persistent prudence. This surplus might easily, have been used to keep in operation a valuable public services, of long utility to scholars, but the responsible authorities were unable to withstand the hasty...