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Powerful factors have been at work in the last twelve months toward a reconsideration of the ill-favored oath law. President Conant and various representatives of Harvard have taken the floor against the principle of the oath, which stifles that free consideration of current problems which is the kernel of true education...
These recommendations would not have stirred any one deeply, least of all the President. The kernel of his message came when he read, "I therefore earnestly recommend . . . the appointment of additional judges in all Federal courts, without exception, where there are incumbent judges of retirement age who do not choose to retire or resign." This meant, according to the draft of the bill which he sent with his message, that he would be empowered to appoint not more than 50 new judges to duplicate those who are now 70 and have been ten years on the bench. Not stated...
...Repeal sentiment for Adolf Gobel, Inc. (frankfurters). Tired of writing about food, food, food, B. & B. called up 200 women in Manhattan, found only seven in favor of the 18th Amendment. Promptly they spread copy predicting return of beer and plugging its time-honored connection with spiced meats. Kernel of the campaign was Gobel's offer to donate a part of each sale to some worthy anti-Prohibition organization. Gobel's sausage sales jumped from 21,000 Ib. per week...
...trouping to enter the University of Kentucky. There he began a one-man show, starring Tom Riley, Pi Kappa Alpha. He produced student revuea, directed the university players, the Strollers; announced over WHAS. University of Kentucky station; and found time to go to movies and review them for the "Kernel...
...Virgin Islands, you say: ''Prohibition had ruined the Islanders- by destroying their chief means of livelihood, the manufacture of rum." This is one of the several moldy chestnuts over which every weekending special correspondent who ever visited these Islands smacks his lips, totally ignorant that the kernel carries within it a crawly worm of error. He has read what the next preceding correspondent said and he repeats it to show what a thorough study he has made of the economic conditions of the Islands. It sounds impressive, but the truth is that the export of rum never amounted...