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...interest. The Farmer-Laborite Magnus Johnson is running to succeed himself. His vote will make evident how his countrymen from Minnesota are impressed with him as Senator. In Colorado, the two Senators are running against each other. Senator Phipps (Rep.) is running to succeed himself. Senator Adams (Dem.) was appointed a year ago to succeed the late Senator Nicholson. This was an ad interim appoint- ment until an election should be held. The term of Senator Nicholson does not expire until 1927. But Senator Adams decided not to contest for the remaining two years of the Nicholson term. Instead...
...will order the National Guard to assemble and do all that is required of them by the military officers, and will appoint State-wide committees to urge patriotic societies to hold patriotic services, as contemplated by the War Department plans...
...Government desires to appoint Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime President of Cornell University and present U. S. Minister to China, as Ambassador to the Island Empire of the East. The Government of Japan failed to find Dr. Schurman persona grata, while Washington declined to withdraw his name...
...political correspondent of the same paper stated that the Free State was also proposing to appoint a Minister to France: "The French Government was directly approached on the subject some time ago, but regarded the proposal with considerable dubiousness, and decided to ascertain the views of the Foreign Office. Even when our Foreign Office intimated that they would make no objection, they still hesitated to accede to the request, which they felt to be an awkward precedent. But now that Washington has given the lead, they will doubtless intimate their readiness to receive the Free State's representative...
...case of labor disputes, the President should have power to appoint a mediating commission, control distribution, prevent profiteering...