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...youth fell into a friendly argument with a lean, puckery-faced young Norwegian. They were talking about their bodies. The U. S. disputant was Harold M. Osborne, 1924 Olympic high jump and decathlon champion, world's record-holder in both events. His contention was that he could compel his body to perform feats surpassing in dexterity and variety those of his interlocutor, Charles Hoff, world's champion pole-vaulter...
...Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, a petition was filed for a writ of mandamus to compel Secretary of State Kellogg and Donald F. Bigelow, American Consul at Paris, to issue to Countess Karolyi, wife of the onetime President of Hungary and alleged Red, a visa to her passport in order to visit the U. S. Thus did the Countess through her attorneys set out to gain by force of law what Secretary Kellogg denied her in the name of the law (TIME, Nov. 2, CABINET...
...week he suffered a recrudescence. He was called "Flower Trust." U. S. Attorney Buckner of Southern New York, brought action under the Sherman Law to dissolve an alleged combination of flower growers in a dozen states and 40 wholesale dealers in flowers. It was claimed this was organized to compel the people of Manhattan to buy only hothouse flowers, thus cutting out of the market the flowers of the woods and fields...
...pages, and youngsters consider the post of page a rare political sugarplum. But several of the Senate pages will have to be discharged this fall because the District of Columbia Superintendent of Schools has announced that under a law passed at the last session he has power to compel school attendance of all children under 14 years...
...invasion of the people's liberties. Echoing sentiments against Prohibition expressed by his chief, President Butler, at last year's opening ceremonies, Prof. Young B. Smith of the Law College let fly: "There are many agitators in our midst who have been seized with a desire to compel all human beings to conform to a type, whether it be fundamentalist, teetotaler or 100% American. This will to standardize men they have attempted to justify on the grounds of efficiency, humanity and religion...