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...fixing.or its equivalent?some sort of export device to get rid of the farm surplus?the proposal of the farm bloc. They argue that prices are low because all the farm produce in which there is a surplus is sold at European prices. They say let a barrier be put up to maintain a high price in the domestic market, and take a loss if necessary on the surplus sold abroad. To this the Administration answers: If the farmers profit on their product, they will produce more; the surplus will grow larger until the loss on the surplus will...
...politician was Mayor Freeland W. Kendrick of Philadelphia. Two years ago he announced his intention of "cleaning up the town." He set out to find a fighting police commissioner (Director of Public Safety). He found him. For one reason or another he got rid of him last week...
...city-room of the Chicago Daily News eyed one another: "How much longer do we work for the Congregational Church?" A few blocks down the Loop, John J. Mitchell, able Chicago banker had been spending a large part of his working days for two months deciding how best to rid himself of one of the greatest evening newspapers in the world. To the leather-faces and to himself Banker Mitchell said Merry Christmas as follows...
...essential to the real expression of art. . . . An artist more than anyone else needs mothering. I call my home a hospital for broken wings. It's not that I believe in temperament either. I think temperament is entirely unnecessary if the artist actually expresses himself. He can get rid of his temperament on canvas just as effectually as on his family...
...general, the college sport authorities look upon the "box-office" game as a danger to intercollegiate football. Those who have sought most ardently to rid the college game of "ringers" are now aroused to fear by the present efforts to put the game on a commercial basis. They fear that professional will replace the amateur, and that academic football will, as a result deteriorate...