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...President John Nance Garner who had closed his month's vacation in Texas. Before leaving Uvalde he succinctly announced: "Selection of a floor leader is none of my business." As the mourners well knew, however, the interests and duties of an elder U. S. statesman often transcend the strict boundaries of his business...
Rousseau's maxim: "Among moral peoples, girls are of easy virtue and wives of strict virtue. Among immoral peoples, the contrary is the case...
...young ladies in the Rockette troupe are equal to either occasion. They can move shyly and demurely in ballet tulle. They can kick and whirl giddily to shrieking brass. Exact, machine-like execution has made the Rockettes known wherever U. S. precision dancing is known and many a strict balletomane takes the organization seriously. New glory came last week to the Rockettes when Edmond Labbé, general commissioner of the Paris Exposition, picked them out to dance at the Exposition's international dance festival July 2. The Rockettes are the first U. S. dance troupe officially invited to appear...
...they go to the lavatory more often than once in the morning, once after lunch. Coryell service station men are encouraged to be proud of their bright orange uniforms and to swarm over each car as if it were a racer rolling into the pits. They are also under strict instructions "never to engage a lady in conversation only as she leads." During the two months that the Coryell offices will remain in Colorado Springs, each staff member will receive $50 extra pay "for their good times." But the office vacation takes the place of the usual two-weeks...
...will, of course, not recognize the danger and they and the affected businessmen will resent interference. Many soothsayers will arise to lull any fears. It will be pointed out that an overexpansion of credit cannot be near at hand because brokers' loans are low and security credit under strict control. (This will be the same type of argument as the 1929 one that inventories were not over-extended and therefore no great danger existed.) It will be pointed out with great pride how well installment selling fared in the recent Depression. This will probably be one of the greatest...