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...destiny of our country. . . . My request is that you consider the merits of a young American youth of goodly heritage-Colin P. Kelly, III-for appointment as a Cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point. I make this appeal in behalf of this youth as a token of the Nation's appreciation of the heroic services of his father, who met death in line of duty at the very outset of the struggle which was thrust upon us by the perfidy of a professed friend...
...entire body of English and American poetry, tries less to hit a poetical bull's-eye than a poetical barn door. His misses are few. All the great and nearly all the minor ancients are fully, and in a few cases fulsomely, represented; contemporary poets receive mostly only token representation. People who tend to bloat when reading classic pieces can get relief, in The Viking Book, from its citation of one of the best literary carminatives ever written (taken from Boswell's Life of Johnson...
Some 60,000 of Glasgow's Clydeside ship yard workers went on strike last week despite the pleas of their union, the laws of their Government. It was only a 30-minute strike. But it was the first of a threatened series of "token" strikes brought on by the failure of the Engineering Union to speed up negotiations for higher wages...
...companies were in a box. When the State Department signed the deal (providing a $9,000,000 "token payment" by Mexico, other compensation to be determined if possible by one U.S. and one Mexican appraiser) it left them no effective out. They could hardly appeal again to the State Department. Said one oilman: "We'd be like a woman raped by a policeman calling...
...above table help and valets (and which has made Annapolis so unpleasant for any Negro appointed that none have ever graduated), is chalked up as a hopeless outpost of feudalism by even the most optimistic colored leaders. The Army has shown a few glimmers of mildly progressive intelligence. A token air force of 100 pilots is being organized at Tuskegee as an answer to the charge that Negroes are admitted only to the infantry. But the military branch of a democracy deserves no credit for ignoring the recommendation of physiologists that American Negroes will make the finest tank drivers...