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...face the problem presented by newspaper publishers, department stores and advertising art services who use or adapt Vogue cover designs, illustrations, decorations or other material and offer it to the public as their own without asking our permission. . . We are asking our readers to help us detect these flagrant violations of a fundamental and well-understood law. If you observe any Vogue cover design ... or other material reproduced in any magazine, newspaper, catalogue or other publications, will you help us to maintain the standards of American business honesty by reporting the infringement...
...reply, the irate Dean flayed the publication's "flagrant violation of a longestablished academic privilege-the inviolability of the classroom." Said he: "The document quoted is a condensation of a 25-page lecture and necessarily lacks the clarity of the lecture. . . . The words are true. ... I believe in all efforts directed toward perpetual peace, [but] I fear the efforts will all prove ineffectual...
...have to your credit the Marne, the Yser, Doullens and, of a surety, other battles beside," writes Clémenceau among his last words to the already dead Foch. "I forgave you a flagrant disobedience, which, under anyone but me, would have brought your military career to an end. I saved you from Parliament in the bad business of the Chemin des Dames, which has not yet been cleared...
Three factors have made private power companies unpopular with a Senate majority: 1) their extensive anonymous propaganda against Government operation, as revealed by the Federal Trade Commission (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.); 2) their stubborn opposition to regulation by the Federal Power Commission (TIME, March 10); 3) the flagrant lobbying against Government operation and in favor of the American Cyanamid bid by the Tennessee River Improvement Association and its onetime head. Claudius Hart Huston, now Republican National Committee Chairman (TIME, March 31). Last week wrote Mark Sullivan, veteran Washington observer: "What it [the Senate's bill] symbolizes...
...latest and, as yet most flagrant case of the heartlessness of hundred million dollar corporation headed by a Lowell and with its Alumni Society headed by a Morgan towards those who do its dirty work is that reported in this morning's Post. "Twenty scrub-women in the Widener Library were discharged by virtue of no fault or complaint of their own, by Harvard College following advice from the State Minimum Wage Commission that their pay must be raised from 35 cents to 37 cents an hour making a total increase for the twenty...