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Albania (about the size of New Jersey plus Maryland) has been governed since 1920 by a Council of Regents (consisting of four representatives-all of whom have now fled to Italy-of the four popular religions: Bektashi Moslem, Sunni Moslem, Roman-Catholic, Greek Orthodox) and by a Diet of 99 members...
...chief contests concerned the delegations from the South where Negroes have a prominent part in the organization. And the Negro question was very significant- for Negroes have been migrating northward, and to offend them might lose the Republican Party large blocs of votes in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York. In the first contest a delegation of two was accredited from the District of Columbia, one of the two a Negro. In a contest over the delegates from Mississippi, Perry W. Howard, a Negro, secured the seating of his delegation in preference to that of M. J. Mulvihill...
...negotiations that Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, scurried from Moscow across the face of Europe to the British Metropolis. The Times, displaying an attitude entirely in keeping with that of the greater part of the British press, printed a letter from one Athelstan Riley, Seigneur of Trinity, Jersey, in which lofty scorn is apparent...
...happened to me once you are sent to New Jersey to hunt a man-eating shark just go to the Amsterdam Roof Gar- den and after about four hours telephone that the shark was last seen fluking his tall well outside the three-mile limit. If you are sent to burglarize some woman's flat for pictures say that the fire escape was blocked by parked babies. You'll have to match cynicism with cynicism...
...three football games which the Princeton Freshman will play away from Princeton next year, two will be outside New Jersey--one the game with the Yale Freshmen in New Haven on November 8. The other two trips are to be made on the same day, October 18, when one Freshman football team will leave for Merceraburg, Pa, to meet Mercereburg, Academy; and another to Hightetown, N. J., to play the Peddie School. The Dartmouth Freshmen will also journey from Hanover, N. H. to play the Princeton Freshmen...