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...luncheon, dismissed. It did leak out that the Hoover campaign is to be a businesslike affair, based on the Coolidge record, with no mudslinging at the Democrats countenanced or tolerated. Senator Moses said: "When we begin to campaign . . . we won't call him 'AP but we will refer to him as the governor of New York...
...spite of our private shelves of volumes, in spite of our wonderful library with its millions of tomes, its acreage of information--there is one wholly extraneous class of printed matter that in time consumed and interest manifested can be said to equal even our beloved books. I refer, of course, to the daily newspapers...
...your issue of May 28 in an article on the death of Wilham D. Haywood, you refer to the I. W. W. men convicted of violating war laws and say that most of them are still in Leavenworth prison. We are glad to state that every one of them has long since been released by pardon of the President and that there are not now any federal political or industrial prisoners...
...disturbed, but not discouraged. Down, but not out. We accept the challenge. . . . Expenditure will be kept inside revenue, no matter what the decrease in revenue may be." General Lord stared the deficit in the face, recalled the black days of 1919: "In certain localities it is the custom to refer to the year of the big snow or the great flood. ... I think our Treasury will always refer to 1919 as the year of the big debt and big deficit" (debt, $26,596,701,648.01; deficit, $13,370,637,568.60). But happier days are at hand: (estimated debt, June...
...greatest surprises of my life came when I discovered that the library staff considered certain books, no matter how valuable as reference books, as too truthful for the students. It seemed absured that a college would take such a stand as to refuse an opportunity for knowledge to residents of the college, even though or rather because, such knowledge lay outside their field. I refer to the series of studies on sex by Hayelock Ellis...