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...system in trades unionism is to have a union of laborers and a union of employers with the Fascisti Party in between. They meet to discuss disputes and they decide on a contract by collective bargaining, the Government's function being to enforce the decision...
...Morrow, Jesse Livermore, Seymour L. Cromwell, etc.] are to be seen wearing our sack coats and straight cut double-breasted waistcoats with contrasting striped trousers. "Saks & Co. also cited Mr. Lloyd George as favoring the "contrasting coat and trouser idea." In Washington, D. C., the Department of Commerce (whose function it is to advertise foreign trade openings for American business men) received a request from Sweden for a monthly delivery of 15,000 to 20,000 bunches of bananas. In Delmar, Del., George Morris, a plumber, was obliged to dig a hole under a house. Crawling in, he felt...
...What does the American public want ?" These fact-collectors are governed accordingly. If any big movement takes place, such as the French occupation of the Ruhr, the foreign correspondents are less concerned with fact-gathering than they are with construing the importance and probable effect of what occurs. The function of a correspondent is to write a factual narrative of events coupled with pertinent comment from others; in no sense should his despatches infringe on the sacred domain of the editorial writer. It is because of this fact that the European news in American journals is so often contradictory...
After lunch he laid the cornerstone of Cleveland's new public library, which function President Harding was to have undertaken had he lived. Noticing the intertwined Star Spangled Banners and Union Jacks, Mr. George said to a crowd estimated at 25,000: " As long as these two flags wave together I have confidence in the future of this old world...
Every football team, so the strategists say, has sme particular game in which it suddenly "finds itself", becomes aware of its latent power and uses it as it has never used it before. Then and then only does a team begin to function as a powerful unified machine. Three years ago it was Centre, two years ago Penn State and last year, less decisively, Holy Cross...