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Individuals who hold the repudiated bonds however, are without redress, for the 11th Amendment prevents them from bringing suit against the debtor State. An ingenious writer in Foreign Affairs for April. 1928, suggested that the British Government acquire the bonds held by British subjects, and that the U. S. permit them to be applied toward the payment of the British debt...
...11th anniversary of the Amritsar Massacre (when over 300 Indian men and women were shot down by British troops) half a million natives gathered on the beach near Bombay to scoop up water, extract forbidden salt by evaporation. Towards evening a huge, blood-red papier-mache monster, symbolizing the salt tax, was dumped into the ocean...
...week an old man who had recently had a leg amputated at the hip was made very happy. He was Dean Emeritus Elias Compton of the College of Wooster. He had just learned that his son. Professor Karl Taylor Compton, chairman of Princeton's physics department, had been made 11th President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Even the oldest peer and the "Father of the House" were consulted. Oldest is William Henry John North, 93, 11th Baron North, High Steward of Banbury, an asthmatic but indomitable old soldier, who still follows his pack of basset-hounds as best he can in his limousine, and must take little comfort that he is a great-grandson of the historic Lord North (Prime Minister 1770-82) whose imperious attitude toward the American Colonies was a major cause of their revolt. The Baronage of North was in abeyance from 1802 to 1841, and the present nth Baron North...
...oiled hair shining like paint, Ralph Greenleaf made run after run. Once he annoyed Rudolph who, having just missed his 24th shot, complained that Greenleaf had disturbed him by walking around. The referee said he had not noticed it. Greenleaf ran 41 in the first half of the 11th inning, Rudolph ran seven and missed. At the end of the match Greenleaf had his 125 points and the championship to Rudolph...