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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grange upon whose back the mystic '77 has flashed, upon whose head the laurels of pen and public have been hung, Red Grange, hero and iceman, now announces to the world his choice of a career. He is to abandon college for professional football. And when he divulges the nature of his future team, a team which can include no player who has not finished a "college career"--bachelor of football, then there need be no more uncertainty as to his real value as an accessory of a college...
...this controversy is a very real one at Yale, and, though it may take a Thirty Years War to end it, there is scarcely any doubt as to the ultimate result. It may appear unholy rash to say it, but we venture to predict that Yale--even Yale--will abandon its attempt to effect virtue by compulsion...
With the fall of the Imperial Government and the rise of "Young China," there has been an insistent demand that Britain abandon her role of customs administrator. This she is reluctant to do, feeling that she now has a heavy "vested interest" in the tariff; and alleging that the Chinese Government is not yet strong enough to administer a tax which the various Tuchuns would be only too quick to seize for themselves if Britain were not there to stop them. The U. S. has generally taken the attitude that China must be given tariff autonomy before she can "grow...
...Starting in February, we will abandon all 'popular' or commercial plays, and put on such productions as 'Hedda Gabler,' 'The Three Sisters,' 'The Veil of Contempt,' and 'A Grain of Mustard Seed...
Freight Handlers. By vote of 6 to 1, the convention voted to suspend from the Federation the union of railway and steamship clerks, freight handlers, express and station employees unless it should abandon claims to jurisdiction over drivers and chauffeurs, etc., who belong to another union. The delegates of the suspended union, which has 160,000 members, threatened that their union would withdraw from the Federation rather than yield...