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...Emperor, reputedly ordered conveyed to Conservative Premier Stanley Baldwin last week a very strong though private intimation that His Majesty disapproved the Cabinet's sensational proposal to "reform" the House of Lords (TIME, July 4). The reform would limit the number of peers, and thus, by implication, abolish the sovereign's present prerogative to create additional peers at pleasure. Last week not only the King but a very large number of the younger Conservative M. P.'s made known their opposition to the proposed bill which would vastly increase the power of the House of Lords...
...World Herbert C. Hoover said: "The levee system needs to be revised and strengthened and, above all, we must have some other safety devices which will relieve the strain on the levee system in periods of super-floods and make them absolutely sure once and for all. . . . We cannot abolish the levee system...
...What is the object? To abolish propaganda? This will double...
...sent out letters to Brown, Cornell and Harvard Universities, major opponents on next fall's schedule, proposing similar measures. A great deal of fuss has been made over this trival change and we are inclined to agree with the World that when such elaborate means are taken to abolish so trivial a thing as scouting, one cannot help thinking of the shell-shocked veteran who was being examined at an army hospital...
Lenin was elected President of a new Cabinet, called the "Council of People's Commissars," and within little more than a month 193 decrees had been issued to give the people land, abolish titles and give the workers control of the factories...