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...Senates behest Secretary Wilbur dove into the Navy Department's records, discovered...
...senior Federal Circuit Judges met in Washington at Chief Justice Taft's behest. They pondered the congestion of Federal Courts. They concluded that five additional Federal Judges are needed...
When that specialization, which is one of the myriad results of industrialism, has so taken hold of the world that no one can be sure of recognition unless he produce in a certain field, it is more than pleasant to find one who defles the behest of the moment. Of the many younger poets now publishing almost all calim appreciation as specialists as poets of certain things or times or places. There is the poet of industrialism; the poet of the West; the poet of the Yukon; the poet of the Umpty-third regiment; the poet of Windy Peaches...
...program of today's conference work includes an afternoon meeting, a banquet for the delegates, and an evening meeting. President John G. Hibben, at whose behest the movement was started, will deliver the address of welcome. Anther speaker will be Norman Mackle who will speak about the question of disarmament form the viewpoint of a young man who has been through the experiences of war. Professor Edwin Kemmerer, of the Princeton department of economic side of the question...
...source of much regret to many of us that the straw-vote, taken at this behest, has been preceded by no discussion in the columns of the CRIMSON, and, moreover, that the question on the ballot has been phrased as it has. The real question is not "Are you in favor of some form of universal military train- ing?", but "Are you in favor of any system of universal military training which is made compulsory?" And on this question, involving a departure from the spirit and tradition of America and from what we have conceived to be the ideal...