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Most disappointing of all to the Roving Reporter was to hear that same old gag which he first heard as a freshman. Someone asked for the dean. The time-worn Spoonerism offered in reply was "The bean is dizzy...
Fascists dismissed for scandalous cause have always been dropped into a well of silence. If the press were allowed to expose the rascality of ex-Fascists, sooner or later the public might suspect that some Fascist in good standing is a rascal top. Last week the press gag was crammed in tight, as Dictator Mussolini dismissed Tycoon Belloni in disgrace. But rumor cannot be stifled. Soon it was believed that...
...Sanger attended the dinner of the Ford Hall Forum to Liberals last month with a gag over her mouth, evidence of the ban which the Boston police force has placed on her lectures...
Attack. As Mr. Hawley's chief Democratic opponent, Minority Leader Garner took the House floor all abluster to attack, not so much the new bill as the prospective Republican method of putting it through the House under a "gag rule." This method he called "legislative cowardice." He described Speaker Longworth and Leader Tilson as "yellow, legislatively speaking" for fearing a "handful of Democrats." The "most vicious proposal" he could find related to its valuation system...
...there is undeniably a real difference between loans from banks and loans from corporations. But whether it is legitimate to push that difference so far as to label a bank loan Credit and a corporation loan Capital is a point upon which many a banker would gag, sputter...