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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been ratified by both parties, as hereinafter mentioned." The treaty was not ratified by the U. S. until Feb. 17, 1815. Hostilities were not expected to cease until the treaty was ratified. Had Andrew Jackson lost, instead of won at New Orleans, Louisiana would have been a British colony. Correct therefore, is Rose McConnell Long; correct also is Reau E. Folk, chairman of the Tennessee commission on research into the real value of the Battle of New Orleans, who first brought the matter to light. This society is sponsoring a correction in all the standard school histories not only...
...most important duties of the Student Council is the management of elections, and any new constitution should attempt to correct the more flagrant abuses of the system. Much of the inefficiency of Senior elections in the past has been due to the multiplicity of polling-places, and one central station for all voting should be established. This could be watched over efficiently by the two Junior committeemen, and the dangers previously encountered in scattered voting would be almost nullified...
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...story which Mr. Clements told his friends was reported by Scripps-Howard's Washington Columnist Raymond Clapper as follows: "Although young Clements had occasionally to 'correct' some of the ill-advised political statements of Dr. Townsend, they went along fairly well until last November, when TIME magazine printed an article picturing Mr. Clements as the real brains of the Townsend movement and Dr. Townsend as his 'stooge' [TIME, Nov. 4], This publication, according to the story current here, infuriated Dr. Townsend. From then on he and Mr. Clements were at swords' points...
...wish to correct a misstatement made in the review of my book on ''Spontaneous and Induced Abortion." You say (TIME, March 16): "Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons." You then cite twelve such reasons. These twelve reasons are correctly quoted from p. 279, but they are preceded by the following sentence: "The minor indications for therapeutic abortion give rise to the greatest differences of opinion, according to Whitehouse, who enumerates a wide range of conditions that have been claimed as justifying interruption...