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Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight, is tired of heaving hogsheads on the New York water front. He issued the following blanket challenge: " I'll agree to fight Willard, Floyd Johnson, Firpo and Jack McAuliffe II, in the same ring on May 12 at the Yankee Stadium, and I don't ask for a penny. But if I stop all of them I want a match with Dempsey." It is not likely that Mr. Wills' boredom with hogsheads will have much effect on the attitude of his contemporaries. Besides being a substantial citizen between fights he is even more...
...overrule acts of Congress. 2) Senator Borah's proposed amendment requiring a 7-2 decision to overrule an act of Congress. 3) A constitutional amendment which will broadly recognize the right of States and of Congress to exercise their "police power" for social justice. The third proposal, a blanket amendment, would make unnecessary a new amendment for every new piece of social legislation. Many believe the provisions of the Constitution are broad enough now to permit legislation making for social justice. But if five members of the Supreme Court do not think so, let there be an amendment which...
...Democratic in politics-and it is definitely opposed to separate political action by women. Its purpose is to arouse civic responsibility among women, and to remove unjust legal restrictions on the equality of women. It is opposed, however, to the National Woman's Party which advocates absolute or "blanket" equality for women, because such a measure would do away with special protective laws for women in industry...
That much abused figure of the past.--the modest-minded individual fresh from a bath who wrapped himself in a blanket before answering the telephone.--is likely to find his precaution a painful necessity if the results of future experiments in wireless photography keep pace with the present. While it is not possible to see by radio, the great advance that is being made in reproducing pictures through the air is shown by last Saturday's achievement, when a photograph transmitted by wireless from Rome was received and reproduced in Bar Harbor forty minutes later and published...
...final results of the campaign are as follows: Suits, 15 Pants, 54 Coats, 53 Vests, 41 Overcoats, 12 Hats and caps, 38 Shoes, pairs, 89 Bath robes, 2 Blanket, 1 Raincoats, 2 Collars, 127 Ties, 161 Socks, pairs, 26 Shirts, 69 Underclothes, 81 Dress suits, 8 Magazines, tons, 2 Books...