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...great bankers, financiers or real estate racketeers, but the obscure and unknown persons who pass upon letters to the editor and decide what shall and what shall not be printed. From their decision there is no appeal. They can, as many of them do, suppress all letters attacking the grievous wrongs and social injustices of our present economic system. Once in a while, to make a pretense of fairness, a letter criticizing the existing social order may be printed. The rest is silence...
Sued for Divorce. Douglas Fairbanks (Nicholas Ullman): by Mary Pickford (Gladys Mary Smith); in Los Angeles. Grounds: "Grievous mental suffering...
Last week's was the first official royal visit to Southampton since Queen Victoria sailed in, nearly 50 years ago. On that occasion Victoria praised the plush carpet run out for her and the city fathers made the grievous social blunder of sending it to her as a souvenir. Last week a more tolerant sovereign was aboard the black steam yacht Victoria & Albert that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren...
...death of Professor Babbitt is a grievous event which will shock those who have loved or envied Harvard for its handful of truly great thinkers. But the student of Professor Babbitt who has studied the details of his life-long fight against the drifting artificial culture with which many so-called "moderns" annoint themselves, will realize the two-fold significance of his death. For the world has lost a remarkable man; at once a brilliant teacher and a great warrior...
...solemnly protest with all our force against this law, asserting that it can never be appealed to against the imprescriptible rights of the Church. . . . We condemn the principle of suppression of the Church which the State already has sanctioned in the new Constitution as the most grievous error and the most lamentable result of the laicism or of the apostasy of present-day society which aims at separating itself from...