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...Papen government has a good chance to carry on for three months more, for in the probable event that the newly-elected Reichstag does not select a ministry of its own, it will be dissolved, with the result that new elections will be ordered for sometime in February. This will give Von Papen's economic program a chance to show results. Von Papen has already achieved some success in his programs, notably a decrease in unemployment, the dropping of reparations payments for the time being, and his success in pleasing nationalist sentiment by his demand for equality in armaments...
There is a competition in every state and the two best men appear before the district committee. Each district committee will select from the 12 candidates so nominated not more than four men who will be Rhodes Scholars at Oxford. A candidate must be a citizen of the United States with at least five years domicile, and unmarried. By the first of October of the year for which he applied he must have passed his nineteenth and not have passed his twenty-fifth birthday. Candidates may apply from the state in which they live ordinarily, or from any state...
...player, with his bushy, grey beard, dinky red & yellow cap and sometimes cranky disposition, he was as well known as Disraeli or Gladstone. As batsman, between 1865 and 1908 he made 54,896 runs, never surpassed. He considered cricket a science, was meticulous in his selection of bats.* The bat which "W. G." preferred was straight-grained willow. With such a bat a scientific batsman like himself could calculate all the forces of his drive. To supply demand for such bats numerous Englishmen took to growing plantations of cricket willows, making comfortable fortunes therefrom. But lately growers complained to England...
...last month to choose one, they would surely not have chosen Groucho Marx. He lacks the manner, the appearance, the erudition proper to the post. Nonetheless, at the beginning of Horse Feathers (Paramount) it becomes clear that the trustees of Huxley College have been so haphazard as to select Groucho. thinly disguised under the pseudonym of Professor Wagstaff, for this honor. He is discovered on a rostrum, where the retiring president of Huxley is addressing the faculty and student body. Attired in a mortar board, with a tailcoat over his arm, Groucho is shaving his false mustache in a portable...
...power of government should be taken away from those who administer it for the benefit of a privileged few. . . . Because I demanded that the Reconstruction Finance Corp. make public its use of the people's property, the President in effect said: 'No. That's for the benefit of my select clientele and the people mustn't know what's done with...