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...Government cannot be dictated to by organized minorities. ... I know these actions do not reflect the will of the country and I refuse to believe that the country is unable to reflect its will in legislation...
...Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Church, was to send as his representative Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson of South Dakota. New York's small Bishop Manning agreed to come. An honorary canon of Washington Cathedral, he would preach later in the day. Eyeing the light, airy choir, Bishop Manning might reflect that his own Cathedral of St. John the Divine is bigger but darker. He might also recall a remark Bishop Freeman made in Manhattan some years ago, when both Cathedrals were campaigning for money: "If Washington is not more powerful than New York, then the Capitol ought to be transferred...
...annual banquet last week of the Yale Daily News (see p. 28), Manhattan Banker Harvey Dow Gibson advised today's college graduate to look upon Business as a professional or graduate school where he will study trade for at least three years. Let him have patience, reflect that parents were once willing to pay firms to take in and train their sons. Depression has made business wary, efficient-"only the best men have been retained and the way to advancement is open to the best men without favoritism. Today there is the opportunity of learning the absolute foundations...
When a group of bright young men in Chicago sought to incorporate "for the promotion of civic welfare and political improvement." Illinois' Secretary of State William J. Stratton refused them a charter. He ruled that the name they had picked would reflect upon the dignity of the State. Out of admiration for Charles Gates Dawes, they had picked his notorious oldtime expletive, "Hell 'n Maria...
...Northfield Schools, took his wife and three children off to Edinburgh, where he is now taking his second degree. When he returns to become Mount Hermon's principal he may sit on his front lawn, look across the Connecticut River at Northfield Seminary for girls, and like "Doc" Cutler reflect: "If the boys want to get over there, they've got to swim...