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...here can remember. The assault will be financed with the largest slush fund on record, contributed for the most part by those who have neither public conscience nor private scruple, who are only interested in getting back inordinate privileges." Chairman Farley braced himself for Republican "perversion of the facts," "outright lies." "foul whisperings." "We must work." continued Boss Farley, "for a victory so overwhelming as to make it plain forever that democracy is the faith of our people and that loyalty to a great President cannot be broken down even by a flood of money...
...stock, which has voting rights, together with most of the common, has been held by a voting trust. The trust was terminated last month, and the bankers bought their block of preferred from private owners, the Rogers family presumably, since the founder's heirs virtually owned the Virginian outright. No new money for the rich carrier was involved...
...Outright prohibition of liquor by college authorities is not the answer to this problem. If students cannot be kept from drinking, they should at least know HOW to drink. Educating the students to proper ways of drinking may become the eventual solution. If all other methods fail, it will not do any harm to try this. Syracuse Daily Orange...
...grant, which will be in effect for the next five years, provides for an outright bequest of $200,000, and beyond this a maximum of $100,000 to be matched by the Rockefeller Fund against whatever the committee receives through gifts, the government, or other sources...
...simple. Explained his New York American: "The word 'teaching' as used in the statutes in conjunction with the word 'advocating' covers the whole field and PROHIBITS INSTRUCTION AS WELL AS ADVOCACY." But to E. Barrett Prettyman, corporation counsel for the District of Columbia, "teaching" meant outright advocacy, did not mean a factual, unbiased treatment of the subject. Acting on Counsel Prettyman's interpretation, the Board of Education refused to stop teachers from at least mentioning and explaining Communism in classrooms...