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...know about that," said Saveli. "Maybe Maxy is a great statesman. But I can't stand him any more! He has gotten too highbrow...
...Volstead Act was declared no infringement of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Young America wavered a moment in doubt. And then in the most amusing test case of the post-diluvian age, the highest tribunal decided that bootleggers must pay an annual income tax on their ill-gotten returns...
...almost a year Herbert Clark Hoover has been President of the U. S. He has gotten the "feel" of his job. Upon him, a sensitive man, has pounded the customary criticism of politics. He has been roundly flayed as well as praised for appointing one commission after another to investigate controversial questions. He has been flayed because his stand on Prohibition was too Dry or too Wet, because he would not deal strongly enough with Congress on tariff rates, because he dealt too strongly with Congress on farm legislation. Avoiding public speeches, living be hind a mask of impersonality...
...might call attention. This is a book I sent to Mr. Rover's [U. S. District Attorney] office?the dirtiest thing I have ever read. I saw a young lady reading it, by accident, and asked her what in the world she was doing reading it. She had not gotten far enough into it, thank God, to see the dirty part of it. On page 97 appears this...
...pedagogy. Before them he laid salary statistics gathered from Harvard, Illinois, California, Ohio State, Yale, Michigan and Wisconsin. He had found that in 1900 the average professor's wage was $2,791; in 1925, $5,318-an increase of 90%. But the average nonteaching university executive had gotten $3,115 in 1900, had received 122% more ($6,904) in 1925. Associate professors had fared a little better than full professors. In 1925 they received an income of $3,895, a 99% increase over...