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...younger generation,--of utmost importance according to the 1907 class report,--has largely been groomed in the art of football. To explain baseball with examples and laboratory demonstrations in the aisle, is father's privilege, and yesterday he made the most of it. Crew once afforded father an added opportunity to take the head of the family, but now that Vassar breakfast tables ring with chatter about track and rowing, baseball remains without doubt the only field in which the male parent can be sure of himself in the company of his offspring...
...think there should be 'diffusive' inflation rather than so-called 'controlled' inflation. ... I distinctly disavow the belief that any of these legislative devices is necessary at this time. I simply offered the bill as a substitute for the Goldsborough bill which I regard with the utmost aversion...
...began to seek light. I found it when I met Remain Holland, the great French philosopher. He advised me if I wanted to do the utmost good in the world to join Mr. Gandhi. ... I went to Switzerland and for a year lived in seclusion with the poorest Swiss peasants. I studied spinning and weaving, I familiarized myself with Hindustani. I read all Mahatma Gandhi's works. . . . Then I came to India, landing at Bombay where many years previously I had been a social butterfly...
...thus addressed the nation last week. Rarely had the White House correspondents, to whom and through whom he spoke, seen him so pleased and self-confident. Overwhelming evidence had come to him overnight that he really had the country behind him in a time and on an issue of utmost importance. The White House secretariat had showed and described this evidence to the Press-a real, continuous flood of telegrams, telephone calls and letters cheering for the President's message to Congress the day before, a sudden, sharp message calling for protection of the nation's credit...
Keyman Robertson keynoted that "the International Labor Organisation has served and is serving as a perpetual reminder in these times of economic stress that the worker's standard of life and his conditions of labor should be maintained to the utmost possible limits!" (Cheers...