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...obnoxious feature of the present probation, could well be done away with, holding a closer check of the probated student's cuts, but abolishing the absolutism of the penalty now enforced. All this would place the full weight of reform on the student's shoulders and permit, if not compel, him to teach himself the regulation of his own time...
...same Congress by Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, President of the Supreme Economic Council, who boasted that the U. S. S. R. had produced "many more tanks, heavy artillery and machine guns in 1933 than in 1932." Taking his cue from his leader, Comrade Ordzhonikidze cried: "If these swines' noses compel our industry to mobilize to arm our Red troops, I think we will do it with more strength and more successfully than we have ever done anything before...
Smythe demanded that the League compel the Bruins to compensate Bailey, beyond the $6,700 which he received from a benefit game in Boston. The League governors compromised by ordering another benefit game, between the Toronto club and an all-star team made up of players from the other clubs. 2) Eddie Shore, Boston's crack defense man who was suspended for spilling Bailey, returned to the ice against the Rangers in Manhattan. His team had slipped into last place largely because of his absence. Heartened by sympathetic cheers from a gallery which nearly always booed him, Shore recovered...
...boast of our religious liberty, but when we compel a disbeliever in religion to support the Church through tax exemption we go back to the days when everybody was compelled to finance the churches. To say that the church helps decrease the amount of taxes because it reduces crime, for example, is somewhat gratuitous...
...state anti-trust laws; 3) continue and expand a liberal government lending policy until private capital can be obtained; 4) reorganize the 44,000 mi. of railroad now in receivership or bankruptcy with a sharp reduction in their fixed charges; 5) enact legislation for the I. C. C. to compel consolidations; 6) revise the clause in the Emergency Transportation Act limiting any reduction in the number of railroad employes...