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When Mr. Harvey intimated that he was too old to run for President, a great wrangle developed at the convention. Thereupon Mr. Harvey changed his mind, declared: "Rather than see the party fall into the hands of those who might disrupt it, I the nomination accept." Cheers echoed throughout the Ozark hills. For Vice President the Liberty Party nominated one Andrae Nardskog, 45, president of the Southwest Water League of California...
...week with four-fifths of their personnel, the other one-fifth resting. Thus each man or woman has, under the present Five-Day week, one day of rest after each four of work; but the "rest day" of husband and wife may not be the same, thus tending to disrupt the family...
Questions by Watson, Another effort to disrupt the Progressive conference came from Indiana's James Eli Watson, the G. O. P.'s Senate leader. Senator Watson publicly submitted to Senator Norris as the Carlton conference's chairman a set of 14 embarrassing political questions which he suggested the Progressives answer. He asked, among other things: Should the 18th Amendment be repealed? Should the Government undertake the ownership and operation of railways? Should the Constitution be amended to deprive the President of veto power? Should the country adopt the dole system...
...fact that the period of April Hour Examinations is the subject of an annual controversy at least substantiates the premise of the objectors that the present arrangement is unsatisfactory. The chief difficulty is that these tests disrupt the natural progress of the second half year and are of no value to anyone either as a standard for marking or a method of assurance that course work is kept up to date. For Seniors writing theses and preparing for Divisional Examinations the situation is particularly obnoxious...
...handbills at the same time as the morning CRIMSON, a paid service which it has extended before. It has no sympathy with the sensationalism of the protest or with the injection of the question of various religions. To heighten the agitation with the emotion of sectarianism is only to disrupt any united protest that might be achieved and to obscure the practical aspect by a cloud of bias, raised because of the irritation of a delicate subject...