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This was decidedly a red herring. The Seiyukai Party, knowing the militarist-dominated Cabinet to be against them, insinuated in their speeches that the Government had not sufficiently rejected, outlawed and blasted the teaching of famed Dr. Tatsukichi Minobe. As a professor of the Imperial University at Tokyo, this legal savant some 30 years ago produced three books on the Japanese Imperial Constitution and the status of the Emperor. That status, in one word, is divine. Dr. Minobe made the mistake of adorning it with other words and blaspheming His Majesty to the extent of writing that...
Richard B. Eaton will give an illustrated lecture Friday evening at 7.30 o'clock in Adams House Upper Common Room on the banding of herring gulls...
Cheerfully violating a St. Paul ordinance against taking pigs into public buildings, Iowa's Governor Clyde LaVerne Herring marched into the office of Minnesota's Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson to deliver a 265-lb. prize Hampshire piglet named Floyd of Rosedale which he had lost to Governor Olson in a bet on the Iowa-Minnesota football game (TIME, Nov. 18). Hardly had Pig Floyd oinked a greeting to Governor Floyd when Governor Herring was informed that one Virgil Case, Des Moines vice crusader, had got out a warrant against him for breaking Iowa's gambling laws. Governor...
...work a little too soon." Without Key to stop, Southern Methodist rode into Los Angeles last week, rode out with a 21-to-0 victory over depleted U. C. L. A. On the eve of the homecoming game at Iowa City between Iowa and Minnesota, Governor Clyde La Verne Herring was said to have announced that his fellow citizens "would not permit any undue rough treatment" of Negro Oze Simmons, fleet Iowa halfback. Infuriated, the Minnesota team held its pre-game workout in Illinois guarded by firemen, local constables and State police. Then it stepped across the line, handed...
...packed with data on U. S. shipping, describes in detail the fate of each of the many Crocketts as they descended the scale from clipper ships to schooners, to coastwise steamers, to fishing smacks, to ferryboats. Silas Crockett II ended up working in a herring factory. Less a novel than a family chronicle, it is filled with glowing tributes to the sturdiness, to the unbeatable optimism of the clan, ends with an inspirational scene in which young Silas and his bride think back over the years and apprehend the radiant reality of their faith. Worldly readers may feel that...