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During the same week colleges all over the country will be staging their own demonstrations against war and confer- ences to arouse interest in peace. If these conferences find favor in the public eye and seem to have accomplished their purpose it is planned to hold a monster peace conference later in the year at a place yet to be designated...
...that suffrage is the badge of all our race. When spring comes into the land and leaves it "so soft, so warm, so bloomin' blue" men are like to be caught unawares and say things they don't quite mean. Especially at such times are they wont to confer upon women powers which are not theirs to possess. And--for such are women--they will not help them in their blindness. The Vagabond would like leave to amplify this thought, for in the past, he, along with countless others, has been in error upon this subject of the powers...
...they provide for an equally old-fashioned but still valuable oratorial contest, they would continue to foster interest in public speaking and great orations, and would also stimulate creative undergraduate expression. Carefully worked-out orations on literary, social, and political problems, delivered in conversational rather than declamatory style, would confer far more lasting benefit on competitors than the mere memorizing of another author's work, no matter how great. If the dead hand of endowment could be changed, the Boylston and Lee Wade prizes would then reward the substance as well as the style of public speaking, and would encourage...
...York, March 16--Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, NRA administrator, and members of the auto code authority will confer here tomorrow in an effort to avert the threatening strike of 100,000 men in the industry expected Wednesday...
...days later, by order of Secretary of the Fascist Party Achille Starace, all deputies appeared in the Chamber with their coats off and wearing black shirts. They met to deprive themselves of most of the Chamber's powers in economic matters and to confer those powers on the organs of Il Duce's famed "Corporative State" (TIME, Nov. 20, et seq.). This elaborate mechanism for integrating production, consumption, employment, profits, imports and exports is best able to function, Dictator Mussolini believes, on a rock-firm gold standard and eliminates all necessity for a managed currency...