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...have ushered in the new era of business recovery and prosperity. But until the bankers and men of means can be satisfied that the government intends to abandon its current policy of experimentation and monetary manipulation, until financiers can be assured that the Administration contemplates ending its program of strict control of corporations and competition with the public utilities, it is impossible to expect any substantial investment of funds in corporative industry...
...black as might be expected. For days preceding the meeting with Holy Cross, the Varsity coaching staff labored to produce a defense capable of stopping the Purple's Notre Dame-type running attack. The result was all that could be asked. The Crusaders were kept under strict control on the ground, and after the first period relied entirely on their serial offense for the punch behind their scoring threats...
From his secret headquarters in the centre of the city Adolf Hitler gave strict orders that nothing should be done that might cause violence. The hymn singing, however, got under the skin of the Bavarian police. With sabres swinging they charged. Pates were split...
...thrifty Britons dislike lotteries but even more they dislike seeing Britain's strict laws drive £1.000,000 a year out of Britain into Ireland. Last year His Grace the jovial, sporting Duke of Atholl ran his own disguised lottery, got £60.000 for British charities and a £25 fine for himself. To plug up the loophole he had found, the Conservative Government jammed through Parliament a new and stricter...
...Independence in a series of "Farmer's Letters," was imprisoned in Connecticut for six weeks in 1775. Chosen bishop by ten Connecticut churchmen, he was consecrated in 1784 in Aberdeen, Scotland because he could not properly take the British oath of allegiance. An able organizer and a strict churchman, he signed himself "Samuel Bp. Connect...