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Because he believes Conservation is CCC's first & foremost aim, Director Fechner also believes that for his corps the spade is mightier than the sword and a better weapon. Should U. S. youth be militarized to build up Army reserves, he would have Congress: i) forget the work program and go in exclusively for military training, 2) would draw trainees from all classes of the population. If this would make a final mockery of William James's peaceful idea, it would at least fulfill the James idea of making use of gilded youth...
...Francisco employers long ago learned from Labor that in bargaining the group is mightier than the individual. In several industries they formed potent associations, first to beat down Labor then to deal with it when unions came to stay...
...participate in the dedication ceremonies . . . not to discuss politics," but as the successor to the closest thing to a dictator the U. S. has yet produced, Governor Leche felt called on to make apologies for Mr. Harrison. Said he: "There is an old saying that the pen is mightier than the sword. I think our friend resents any advantage on the part of the sword...
...solitaire after everyone else has returned to college from Bermuda, Florida, and skiing trips?" That is the whisper that mounts to a roar as the end of March approaches. If it were not for the fact that those who would roar loudest have already left, it would be a mightier roar...
Only a sprinkling of the 17,000 ardent track fans who last week filled Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and overflowed three deep around the rim were surprised when Kansan Glenn Cunningham, now running for the New York Curb Exchange and mightier than ever at 28, won the Wanamaker Mile for the fifth time in six years. But they were all quite unprepared for what they witnessed in the running of the 60-yd. dash...