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...Louisiana legislature, rejoicing was not so wholehearted. Members from districts where Federal spillways and floodways will force dwellers to move out, defeated a resolution of thanks to the U. S. Congress. .. After the excitement had passed, citizens considered what actual Flood Control work would go ahead forthwith, and what the U. S. had done already...
...parties will have to make sacrifices and maybe the banks also. For a bank it is better to have a live customer on the books than a corpse. Until you get an industry on a sound basis you cannot move forward half an inch and you will never get fresh capital, enthusiasm or anything, and nothing but ruin stares you in the face. No Government can help in this cutting out of deadwood...
...soldiers always flank the door of a certain large but unpretentious mansion on the famed Wilhelmstrasse. Changed every few hours, they stand while on duty absolutely motionless, eyes front, shouldering heavy service rifles which are never seen to move, to tremble. Early one morning last week these soldier automatons turned suddenly as though on pivots, snapped to salute, and again became motionless as President Paul von Hindenburg, 81, strode forth with a Feldmarschall's tread, passed down the Wilhelmstrasse into the Taubenstrasse and entered a reeking, beery saloon...
...misappropriation of funds or maladministration of the law. Then there came the matter of electing four bishops out of 100 eager candidates. Wild scenes occurred. Presiding Bishop William Sampson, making himself heard above the storm, cried that a motion to adjourn was out of order. Thinking this an unfair move in favor of a rival candidate for a bishopric the Rev. R. L. Pope of Indianapolis climbed to the rostrum and charged Bishop Sampson with injustice. "You are a liar, sir! Get off this rostrum at once or I'll have you thrown off and out of the building...
...outcry at Oxford bears a close resemblance to the events which preceded Dr. Buchman's expulsion from the campus of Princeton, four years ago. At Oxford, however, there are perhaps not more than 75 Buchmanites of whom several are dons. After the outcry, the authorities made no move, undergraduates exhibited a lackadaisical approval, and Buchmanites continued to hold their "morning watches," and to move in their mysterious ways...