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Also on the heels of the Rockefeller switch, William Gibbs McAdoo, longtime temperance champion, came out with a defensive proposal. The legal machinery for resubmission or repeal would grind too slowly to be effective, thought he. Although legalists had argued that the Constitution does not provide for popular balloting on general questions. Lawyer McAdoo observed that the Congress was empowered "to provide for the general welfare of the United States." He proposed that the next President call a special session of Congress to empower him to proclaim "a national advisory referendum." Well aware that this liberal Prohibitionist policy...
...well as on the elastic tissues of the larynx and on bone cysts. For his re constructive surgery on mutilated War veterans he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Surgery, he remarked last week upon his election as president of the American Medical Association, "is a long, hard grind...
...Vatican, and the explanations of its ambassador were exercises in the arrogant rhetoric of the Renaissance. To a pope who reckoned his reign by the cities he had conquered, every pharse was a gauntlet thrown down: "If Venice does not bow to my wishes," he exclaimed, "I will grind it lower than a fishing village." The reply was a challenge to battle. 'If Your Holiness does not yield to Venice, we will grind you lower than a village priest...
When trench warfare forced the French generals to revise their Fochian formula, the real grind of modern war began. These were dark times for Foch. His son and son-in-law had been killed. He himself fell out of favor, was retired by Joffre from command of the Northern Group of Armies. Not until the throes of disaster led the Allies to appoint him their supreme commander could his faith burn openly where all could see and feel. "Materially, I do not see that victory is possible. Morally I am certain that we shall gain it." The Author. Born...
...Neither Oscar Sutermeister '32, nor G. F. Bennett '32 entered the meet, in which they were expected to figure with some success. The best time of the afternoon came when N. P. Hallowell '32, Veteran Crimson distance man, clocked three minutes and twelve seconds in the three-quarter mile grind, as a result of close competition from W. E. Clapham 1G. B. and B. E. Estes '32, who finished but a few split seconds behind...