Word: abolishing
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...seeming disinterest of the Sophomore and Junior Classes in connection with class elections, the Student Council decided last night to abolish them, unless too great a protest is received from the student body. The Council has always paid for these elections, and feels that since the duties of the officers are entirely honorary, and since less than one third of the classes respond to the voting, the money spent for printing and mailing the ballots might be used to better advantage...
...announcement that the Student Council intends definitely to abolish the sophomore and junior elections will undoubtedly meet with the approval of all concerned. That these elections, purely nominal and honorary in character, have long forfeited any interest they may once have commanded is clearly shown by the small vote cast during the last few years. Since returns rarely represent more than one third of any class, the elections neither express a concensus of opinion nor justify the expense and trouble they entail...
TIME believes that the strongest motive in the overwhelming vote for Repeal was the national desire to abolish the bootlegger...
...American Legion. Its pronouncements on diplomacy and on the high technique of political management are biased and uninformed; as an organization it persists only for the ends of bleeding the public till, and if its size and electoral importance were to decline, our dignity might move us to abolish it and stop the mouths of its arch prophets. But beneath all of its baroque the Legion serves a peculiar and a useful purpose. Military conscription and World's Fairs conspire with it in showing the yokels a good time, in letting them see how pleasant and inspiriting the habits...
...Bronx Boss Flynn. He had previously told reporters that if they saw him on the 29th floor of the Lincoln Building, he would not be going to see Flynn but to rest in another friend's neighboring office. He promised to reduce the budget "by instituting real economies," abolish duplicating departments in the city government by having the charter revised, unify the subway system to provide an honest 5? fare. Explaining the formation of his independent party, he said: "I would not have served on the [Fusion] ticket because I would have had to accept the support and laid...