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...cannot be a halfway citizen under that flag. . . . We have a great deal to give when we confer citizenship upon an alien. It is like admitting a new stockholder, and he or she should be willing to do what the other stockholders have obligated themselves to do. We must forget our various views on pacifism when war comes...
...Yale was the first American university to introduce competitive scholarships to promote scientific agriculture, to confer the degree of doctor of philosophy, and its influence was felt early in the education of women...
Farrington of Hawaii was in Washington last week to call on President Coolidge, confer with the State Department, refresh his memory of the capital whence comes his power, and to "talk up" Hawaii. He was asked (by pressmen) how he would like to be Governor General of the Philippines. Said he: "Why talk about impossibilities? I am building a house in Honolulu and I have a newspaper" there. I am perfectly satisfied where...
...Butler was heading for Washington to confer informally with some members of the Republican National Committee, whom he had summoned privately by letter. The "Sic 'Em Boys" (Democrats, insurgent Republicans, and copy-starved political correspondents) anticipated his arrival by spreading reports that Mr. Butler was still planning a "Draft-Coolidge" movement. When the President characterized these reports as "unfriendly," the "Sic 'Em Boys" transferred the epithet to Mr. Butler and forecast a Coolidge-Butler spat. They also whispered that Mr. Butler was going to pick the G. O. P. convention city; that Mr. Butler was perturbed over insurgency...
William P. MacCracken Jr. of the Aeronautical Bureau of the Department of Commerce, also secretary of the American Bar Association, said his Department would gladly undertake whatever regulatory powers Congress might confer but added, ". . . Adoption of regulations will not end the loss of life in these pioneering enterprises...