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...State of Mississippi ... and to establish in place thereof any form of government the direction and control of which is to be vested in ... the domination or control of any foreign government, organization, or individual; but does not and shall not be construed to mean an organization the bona fide purpose of which is to promote peace by alliances or unions with other governments or world federations, unions, or governments to be effected through constitutional means...
...students yesterday checked with Jerome B. Spunt '50, treasurer of the charities drive, who admitted that nothing had been sent to the P.O.A.U. because the volunteer who was sorting the fund cards failed to recognize the group as a bona fide charity...
...eligible for a delegate's position one must: 1) be a bona fide university student; 2) have lost a parent in the war; 3) procure a recommendation from university authorities; 4) attach a small photograph and a hand-written note attesting to the included information...
Next day the States ran an exclusive story of its own under a Page One banner: "PRINCE" MATE OF N.O. GIRL CALLED FAKE. A long-distance call to a bona fide Hohenzollern in Texas, reported the States triumphantly, had established that "there is no Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern." So had a search of the Almanack de Gotha and inquiries at the U.S. State Department. For good measure, the States also put in a transatlantic call to Hechingen, Germany, where Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm himself denounced "Otto Wilhelm" as an impostor...
...published purely for the amusement of themselves, their minions, and those of their friends who share their exact estimate of what is funny. This would be a valid argument if the Lampoon were typed on Kleenex and passed fraternally from hand to hand. However, the Lampoon is a bona fide publication, "Copyrighted . . . entered at the Boston Post Office," and engaged in selling advertising space to merchants who presumably expect to reach more people than are usually gathered in the Great Hall of the aviary...