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...Secretary of Labor, charged Mr. Vare & friends with corruption and false returns. Mr. Wilson laid his case before the Senate's regular Committee on Privileges & Elections and requested a recount of the Vare-Wilson votes. Last week, dividing on strictly party lines, the Committee voted 8 to 6 to dismiss Mr. Wilson's request. Up stood Inquisitor Reed in the Senate and repri- manded the Elections Committee so fearsomely that its chairman, tall Senator Shortridge of California, and his seven fellow Republicans, soon recanted their decision and agreed to let a subcommittee re-examine Vare-Wilson ballots cast two years...
...report upon what elements of greater freedom should be extended to Indians. When the Earl of Birkenhead himself tried to explain why not one single Indian will sit on this commission his logic lacked conviction; but Mr. Baldwin turned the trick emotionally with two spacious sentences. "Let Indians dismiss any imputation of inferiority," said he. "They will be approached as friends and equals...
...beverage-beer, it would be splendid to appoint Mr. La Dow a censor of the habits and morals of Americans traveling abroad. In performing the pious functions of that position, meticulously as his intense but individual patriotism would dictate, he could incidentally be charged with the authority to summarily dismiss those representatives of our Government abroad whose conceptions of loyalty and patriotism might conflict with Mr. La Dow's, albeit such public servants, as has Consul General Curtis, may have labored faithfully in the best interests of their country during 20 years and have received in addition...
...great deal of clear and not a little convulsive thought has gone into the initial number of this quarterly, the presence of which is being bruited about in the better bookshops from Brattle Street to Willoughby Street in London. One cannot dismiss it as another transitory emulation of the Parisian expatriates, although that group is the indubitable fount of its inspiration. Certainly it is not a periodical for the layman; rather is it one of the arts and for artists, or those who aspire to become artists. But it is too well made up to qualify as merely a fleeting...
...consequence in the majority of cases is extremely uninteresting and also inaccurate. His proximity to his material makes proper vision impossible; what he sees as great pulsating problems turn out to be mere details which always clutter the collegiate scene. On the other hand that which he may dismiss as "ordinary" is likely to prove the real meat of his discourse...