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...them indicted for criminal mismanagement (punishable by shooting). The decree, postulating that many of Russia's present breeding ranches are too large, ordered them split up by the creation of 102 new ranches, menaced with dire threats ranch managers who have ignored previous orders to breed on a strict cost accounting basis...
Advocating state rights, including determination of the prohibition issue, as well as strict curtailment of Federal Bureaucracy, Albert C. Ritchie, four times governor of Maryland, is a well backed Democratic candidate at the present time. At a time when, more than over, it is difficult to reconcile party and personal convictions on a multitude of issues with those of a bewildered public, Ritchie states his pros and cons without hesitation. Tariff readjustment to restore the foreign trade of the United States, non-cancellation of war debts, and the maintenance of adequate national defense are other viewpoints on which the Governor...
...deliberate infractions of library rules, and it is not surprising to learn that a few undergraduates have carried their inexcusable practices with them into the House Plan. In the transfer, some new tricks have been added to those well known at Widener in days before the introduction of a strict administration, buttressed by turnstiles; but the general methods remain the same. Books in especial demand disappear before every important examination. New rules restricting members to their own House library and confining the use of overnight books to the House from which they were issued are flagrantly violated...
...music are synchronized. Example: a roomful of typists pecking out a tap dance rhythm in time to orchestral accompaniment. Artificial as this sort of thing is, it is one of the notable features of the film. Characters walk in time to the music, doors open and close in strict tempo, orchestral voices imitate unheard sounds and expressive gestures on the screen...
...more frequently acted upon than taught the precepts of his calling. He knew no strict creed, beyond the dogma of the useful life. His mind and spirit were the only art which he possessed, yet they were manifest in all he did or said. As a teacher he was more interested in developing keen and unaffected minds than careful theologians. As a minister he sought to instill the precepts of his Christianity in the minds of his people. As a beleiver in religion he cared less for what it was than for what it might...