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...signs were that the French and Spanish would make a tremendous effort to compel Abd-el-Krim to submit before the October rains descend to put an end to operations for the winter. It seemed unlikely, however, that they could accomplish so much in so short a time...
...continues, "One of the chief problems of today is how to enforce the huge output of legal precepts required by the complex life of urban industrial communities. Here again is a subject in which a professorship, in a national school, in which students from every part of the country compel the teacher to consider the question from many points of view, may do great things...
...that, under the spirit of democratic government, the power to kill legislation, providing the revenues to pay the expenses of government should, during the last few days of a session, ever be in the hands of a minority or perhaps one Senator? Why should they ever be able to compel the President of the United States to call an extra session of Congress to keep in functioning activity the machinery of the Government itself? Who would dare maintain that, in the last analysis, the right of the Senate itself to act should ever be subordinated to the right...
Years ago, a case occurred where the Exchange was not so fortunate; and the petitioning member was allowed, in the teeth of the market's authorities, to return to the floor. However, the law cannot compel one man to trade with another. The broker in question was "sent to Coventry." No one recognized or spoke to him. His bids and offers were ignored and he could do no business on the Exchange floor. After an hour or so, he gave it up and retired from the Stock Exchange as gracefully as possible. Never since that time has the Exchange...
With the aid of the Lieutenant Governor, Felix Toupin, a fiery little man of French descent who presided over the Senate, the Democrats began a filibuster a year ago to compel the Republicans to agree to a Constitutional Convention to do away with the "rotten borough" system. The filibuster lasted from January to June, with frequent clashes, several of which went to the point of physical violence. Finally in June, at the end of a heated session of 50 hours' duration, someone placed a bromine gas bomb behind the Lieutenant Governor's chair. The Democrats said...