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...Washington, the National W. C. T. U. (Mrs. Ella A. Boole, President) closed its midwinter conference after appealing to public officials to abstain from drinking; to society leaders, magazine editors, cinema producers to stigmatize drinking as bad form. The Unionists visited, President Coolidge and announced that the "national conscience" was "awakening." Four Washington debutantes quit ushering for the Union. Praised for having vowed neither to smoke nor to drink, they were incensed...
...Discussed in secret the secretly presented report on foreign affairs of Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain. The report is persistently rumored to contain an allusion to the alleged intention of France to transfer to Italy her troublesome League Mandate in Syria-Italy then to abstain from all interference with French interests in Morocco...
Vexed, the General's political opponents branded him in covert conversations as a model hypocrite. Said M. Tsaldaris. opposition leader, spitefully. "We will abstain from the forthcoming parliamentary election unless General Kondylis resigns...
...preliminary disarmament conference scheduled for Geneva, May 18, will accomplish only negligible results. It would be better for the U. S. to abstain now and offer to mediate between the European nations later, when their economic distress will make it necessary for them to disarm. They do not intend to disarm...
...faithfully adhering to the truth of the Gospel and conforming their lives thereto than by joining in the celebration of a mighty festival marked by 'magnificent processions' and outward 'ceremonies'?" By unanimous vote the Council decided to appeal to all other Protestant bodies to abstain from taking part in the new Feast...