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...political views, I believe, as did Jefferson, that we must annul certain privileges "and instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society to make way for an aristocracy of virtue and talent." . . . EUGENE S. DANIELL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1933 | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...answer is that this is a very special problem. It needs the establishment of machinery suitable for the purpose in hand. The CRIMSON needs to be reminded that here is a separate problem. It needs to badger the authorities into treating the problem as an annul affair, demanding annual reconsideration and solution. The men chosen by the CRIMSON this spring to serve as Assistant Managing Editors will run the papers throughout the autumn. From their ranks will be chosen the CRIMSON'S two Presidents from their class. Such a series as this should be long in preparation. The functional organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshman Adviser | 3/21/1933 | See Source »

...pleasant life as the royal lover of beauteous Gaby Deslys, refused to return to Portugal in 1919 when Royalists proclaimed him King again. Actress Deslys died in 1920, also of a throat infection. Dom Manoel retired with his wife (whose marriage Pope Benedictus XV had refused to annul) to his farm at Twickenham, near London, settled down to a life of farming, tennis, fencing and following horse races. He died while his valet's daughter was being married. He had promised to be best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: King's Glottis | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...critical financial state of New Haven gives pertinence to a problem which for long has confronted universities and local governments. The New Haven authorities have threatened Yale with special legislation to annul the tax-exempt features of its charter, unless the university voluntarily contributes in the present emergency. In view of the fact that Yale has been accused of securing unjust exemptions, the possibility takes on extra force. The university golf-course, according to press reports, has been transformed by academic magic into a botanical gardon. Dormitories and gymnasiums have received the addition of recitation rooms, in order to justify...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOWN AND GOWN | 3/23/1932 | See Source »

...differing on minor points, by both Houses. A joint commission was to iron out differences, but the new canon was certain to give divorced persons a chance-"1,000 chances," one bishop called it-to be remarried in the Church. They could appeal to an ecclesiastical court which might annul their previous marriages under certain "impediments"-impotence, insanity, et at. By admitting testimony which did not appear in the original divorce suit, the court could nullify a marriage and still evade the hated word. Divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Denver (Cont'd) | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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