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...cannot say," reflected Mr. Clapper at the end of his story, "that it adds anything of historic importance . . . but with me it lingers fondly among the trivia of swirling times, with the poignant fragrance of happier days...
...regular quarterly preferred dividend (again better than 75% unearned); 2) that second-quarter earnings ($1,309,761) were about $650,000 more than the first quarter's-but only because the Corporation decided to cut depreciation charges by $700,000. Three days later Mr. Stettinius had no happier prospects when Montana's Senator Burt Wheeler threw a spanner into steel and other durable goods industries by defeating Mr. Roosevelt's rail equipment plans...
...lark could be happier than John Edgar Hoover, chief policeman of the land, who has found in Attorney General Frank Murphy the perfect, implacable, incorruptible yet deferent boss. Mr. Murphy takes Mr. Hoover with him on major punitive expeditions, such as the one to Kansas City to "get" Boss Thomas J. Pendergast. Mr. Murphy encourages Mr. Hoover to step out vigorously on lines of his own, as any smart policeman likes...
...tenancies covered by the Rent Acts, passed during the War to prevent profiteering, the strikers sometimes have a good legal case and have even recovered back rent paid in excess of the law. More often the strike is completely illegal, but that does not make the landlords much happier. Last month when 83 police smashed through a strikers' barricade in Stepney, East End London borough, and evicted five families, Tenant Defence detachments promptly reinstated them. Boasts Father John Groser, Church of England leader of the Stepney strike: "Many landlords have watched the straws in the wind and capitulated...
Examinees were asked to say whether certain statements were consistent with, irrelevant to or inconsistent with the poem, e.g.: The houses are haunted by ghosts; drunkenness is a terrible vice; respectable people are happier than drunken sailors; "red weather" occurs only at sunset; there is only one drunken sailor; life is now too uniform and standardized (closest to the poem's meaning...