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...personally responsible for any further indignities you try to inflict on me. You have threatened to arrest me for not obeying your orders promptly. I dare you to do it, and I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path, it will be at the peril of your life." Bragg did not take the dare...
Although the legal path for the Standard of New York-Vacuum deal is now clear, owing to recent changes in stockmarket valuations, it will probably not go through on the original terms announced when the two companies decided to merge 16 months ago. The exchange ratio was to have been the equivalent of three Standard for one Vacuum...
...They give us a more definite standard for judging the intelligence and growth of the student, and they give written examinations a decreasingly important place in education. That is as it should be, for memory is only the ash that is left after enthusiasm and analysis have burned a path into uncharted realms; and written examinations depend too much on the moods of the student and the corrector to be left in college education much longer...
...trial. You have each your special cause of anxiety. So, too, have I. The whole nation is beset with the difficulties incident to a world-wide depression. . . . Many have lost the savings of a lifetime, many are unemployed. . . . This is passing trial. . . . Never was the lure of the rosy path to every panacea or of easy ways to imagined security more tempting. For the energies of private initiative we are offered an alluring substitute in the specious claim that hired representatives of 100,000,000 people can do better than the people themselves in thinking and planning their daily life...
...decade of prosperity and peace the attitude will be quite different. People have come to realize that in imposing the tremendous debt on Germany they were not wreaking vengeance on some barbarous huns who had strung babies up by the toes and wantonly destroyed everything in their path. With the return to sanity they have found that the debt was merely an imposition on a people like themselves of a burden which did much harm and no good. Idealism is no longer tolerated as a defense for the terms which France insisted be exacted from Germany...