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Their Lordships learned from Viscount Hailsham, Secretary for War, that the Irish Free State has refused to send a delegation to the Jubilee (May 6). On May 24 President de Valera's bill to abolish the Free State Senate and pave the way for proclamation of an Irish Republic is scheduled to become...
...order attempts to wipe out with one stroke of the pen all that is of possible value in the code to the trade, retaining only its burden, the labor provisions. Such action, if legal, must abrogate the entire code and will, in fact if not in theory, abolish the other half as to hours and wages. There is strong and uncontrollable opinion among the complying members of the code that . . . the Administration's announcement practically amounts to notice that the Government will not perform its part of the bargain...
When War becomes a nation's No. 1 business, any Government would like to abolish the profit system and take over the whole country. Next to Soviet Russia, Fascist nations are best equipped to do so. Last week Dictator Benito Mussolini broadly hinted that when "the eventual war" comes, Italy will do what Fascist theorists have long predicted. He posed the old issue: "Must the eventual war be financed by either loans or taxes?" and dodged a specific answer by declaring: "It is resolved, but I do not wish...
Senator Norris of Nebraska was making an impassioned appeal to the Senate in behalf of his Constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and elect Presidents and Vice Presidents by direct popular vote. At the climax of his speech he addressed the Chair, extending his hand in a dramatic gesture, denying categorically that such an amendment would favor any political party, would serve any end save the true purposes of democracy. Then he sat down amid a hush...
Breaking the bonds of a thirteen-year tradition, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences upon the recommendation of the administrative Board has voted to abolish the Rank List, for upper classmen. Since the inception of the tutorial system there has been felt a necessity for such action in order to lessen the emphasis placed upon course grades, and to give proportionate credit for tutorial work...