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...watch tower of civilization, conning the ominous signs of the times, shall hear rung out the challenge: 'Watchman. what of the night?' Angels grant that, true to the lessons of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, our friendship with all nations and alliances with none, we may respond 'Thank God, all is well...
...unfair inference of the footnote is that Grace Tibbett, as a poor girl, worked to make her husband "rich and famed" and that "rich and famed," Tibbett ungratefully cast her off with perhaps not so much as a "thank you." To present a more complete picture, the footnote should have added that Mr. Tibbett has made generous financial provision for his former wife, and that in the journey from poverty to riches, he also brought Grace Tibbett from poverty and obscurity to comparative affluence and prominence...
...Many a celebrating citizen gulped an aspirin tablet on New Year's Day without any idea of whom to thank for the relief. Few days later in Rensselaer, N. Y., the man who introduced aspirin to the U. S. on a commercial scale retired from the active management of Bayer Co. Dr. Emmanuel von Sails, a Swiss from Basle, came to the U. S. during the Spanish War, went to work for a chemical concern in Rensselaer. In 1904 he persuaded the company to start making and marketing acetyl salicylic acid tablets, which were well known in Europe...
...till I tried to learn it. Then I decided it was because there were 400 different steps to it. The Rhumba -- that's really a hot dance, too, and the NRA, a waltz named after the Recovery Act is another new step that's pretty sweet. Thank the Lord we don't have some of the vulgar dances they used to have like the "Grizzly Bear," and the "Rocking Chair...
...Deal owes neither its conception or launching primarily to economists. What of the fallacious notions held by the less educated--from an economics point of view--of the Roosevelt camp? Here everything depends on general predisposition and nothing on specific economic arguments. I myself feel that we should thank God both for the damn fools and their fallacious notions. The essential thing is to make the start in a radically new direction and that is something--even though from the point of view of underlying social and economic conditions it may have been long overdue--which is not likely...