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What next? Merely the same old futile thing. As custom decrees, His Majesty sent for the Last of the Genro or Elder Statesmen, 83-year-old Prince Saionji. Once again he would advise the Son of Heaven whom to choose as Japan's next Premier. Meanwhile there were rumors (unconfirmed) of mutiny in the Japanese Army & Navy...
...first University beat, as well as to all members of the Jayvee boat who row two years in the second shell. The change desired, which represents a return to the policy of the H. A. A. prior to 1927, as well as a turn to the present custom in crew at Yale, would restate the rule to grant a major letter to all Seniors who row against Yale in the Jayvee boat, regardless of how long they have been rowing there...
That act was significantly French. By law and by custom the honor & dignity of the President of the Republic are the honor & dignity of France-to an extent undreamed of in most other republics. It is a crime against the State to print jokes about the President of France or to disparage him from stage or platform. Frenchmen-as individuals and as a nation-were never more true to French traditions than in their instinctive, automatic reactions to the swift, tremendous tragedy of last week. Every moment of the 13 hours that passed between the shooting in mid-afternoon...
...radio Squaw Kobvello could not have been brought to trial until the pack ice melts. Her case, Arcticly outside the realm of ordinary journalism and ordinary jurisprudence, was briefly summarized thus: "It is the custom in the Arctic for an Eskimo in need of a servant to follow his traplines and do other labor, simply to seize any single woman he sees and take her with him into the wilderness. Schurer did just that to her, Kobvello said. He seized her on Herschel Island, forced her to accompany him on a trapping expedition and made her do all the manual...
...prohibitory law has not been perfectly enforced, of course. For a century and a half the traffic in liquor was a perfectly lawful business, just as much so as banking and farming. Millions of money were invested. . . . Drinking was a popular social custom. . . . [The Prohibition law has resulted in] enlarged savings deposits in the banks, increased expenditures for legitimate commodities, decrease of crime, increased efficiency of labor, broken homes repaired, separated families reunited. . . ."-From the episcopal address...