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Suit was brought by Senator Hamilton Fish Kean of New Jersey to compel Union Township, where he owns a farm, to pay him $105 for nine ringnecked English pheasants and twelve Japanese Silkies, which he said had been slain by town dogs breaking through his wire fence. Last year Union Township paid him $136 for a similar claim. Robert ("Bobby") Carmichael, North Carolina University sophomore, sportive son of Vice President William Donald Carmichael of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., had the New York Evening Graphic (tabloid) run off 200 copies of its tabloid front page bearing a photograph of himself tearing...
...high-school principals of Illinois-assembled last week at Urbana, President Hutchins added obiter dicta: "The whole business is an experiment. Perhaps we have not the brains to get from it all we should . . . [but] it will compel us to think what we are doing...
...this country we seek to compel obedience to law by . . . death, imprisonment, fines. In England and Canada flogging by birch or by 'the cat' also is in-flicted." Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the President's Law Enforcement Commission, now preparing its report at Washington, wrote that in a paper read for him last week before the American Prison Association at Louisville, Ky. He concluded: "A careful inquiry . . . may well be made to determine the desirability of employing [flogging] in the war against banditry and racketeers...
...From experiences in many lands I have sometimes compared some of these systems to a race. In the American system ... we train the runners, we strive to give to them an equal start, our government is the umpire. . . . Socialism or its violent brother, Bolshevism, would compel all the runners to end the race equally; it would hold the swiftest to the speed of the most backward. Anarchy would provide neither training nor umpire. Despotism or class government picks those who run and also those...
...accommodation" to the Union, the operators "upon the request of any employe will receive from [him] on payday, at a point convenient to the pay office and transmit to the district [union] treasurer, an amount not in excess of $1 per month." The operators decline to "solicit or compel contributions...