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...confused with Major General William B. Lassiter who chairmaned the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission which was eventually unable to adjust the differences of Chile and Peru over that territory...
...deliberately jumped or lowered their tariffs on the occasion of a single large shipment across their frontiers, readjusting the tariff scale again when the shipment had passed. If such sharp practice could be eliminated and the attitude of tariff barriers fixed, international commerce would at least be able to adjust itself to a definite scale of "necessary evils." Paradoxically, though last week's manifesto seemed destined to produce no real effect, it caused marked temporary fluctuations on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Berlin Bourse...
...impressionable stage while at college, the student cannot hope to gain a formula for future existence and a road map from college. He can get less easily catalogued gifts experience of mental freedom, the contact with cultivated minds (nor are they all dull or completely parched), the ability to adjust interests on some saner scale, the small but glorious gleam of reality which even the barest learning or the continued application of tobacco, friendship, and intelligence sometimes engenders. Mr. Aswell has too much faith in the American college student as a reformer, too little as a college student...
...described as the personal. Various affliction and blessings of a particular college are hers peculiarly hers uniquely. Nor is it the duty or should it be the pleasure of any other, to describe her duties in regard to these afflictions and blessings. The CRIMSON has no more right to adjust Yale's Chapel system than has Yale to regulate Harvard's tutorial system. And when one satirizes the other in such a case, then, not alone the canons of good judgment, but the less easily defined rules of good taste have been shattered...
...plays-famed for his knack of creating characters (like his Henry IV) who are not what they seem. Early in the week Signor Pirandello had received a visit from two friends with a mutual grievance: Playwright Massimo Bontempelli and Author Giuseppe Ungaretti, both Italians of note. They desired to adjust a minor point of honor by the duello. But a Fascist decree forbade. What should they do? Philosopher-dramatist Pirandello cogitated, frowned, beamed at last upon his honorably quarrelsome friends, invited them to a garden party, suggested that they bring swords. . . . At the garden party last week, Signor Pirandello announced...