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With the zeal for reform which prompted his organization of an antidrinking league as a youth, he kept tackling problems of parliamentary and agrarian inequalities. By 1922 he had pushed through the Lex Kallio, forcing Finland's big landowners to sell property to small farmers at pre-war prices, built a substantial enfranchised middle class by turning tenants into owners. To consolidate Finland's gains he worked hard for Pan-Scandinavianism and national defense, though the odds against him proved overpowering...
Rounding out the stern trio, to which Spuhn pays the sincere compliment of calling it "steady," come Hill Bennett and Captain Pitney. Lex Bayard moved back into the No. 5 seat after the Navy contest and is still doing business at the same stand. Charlie Dennison is at home in the first boat, having left his No. 2 of last year to carry on activity at 4. Pat Merle Smith at 3 has been having no trouble in getting back to galley-slave form after a year...
...Cessante ratione, cessat ipsa lex" is a learned and Latin way of saying that when the reason for a law ceases to exist, the law itself dies with it. And to a distinguished professor up at the Law School, this little tag strikes at the very root of the legal system. In fact, it is reliably reported that this jurist injects the quotation at least four times into each of the profound and erudite dissertations he hurls at his disciples Mondays through Thursdays...
Cessat ipsa lex...
...last night at the Opera House and continues there through Saturday evening. New numbers in the repertoire include "Coq d'Or," based on Pushkin's fairy tale with music from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name, "Francesea da Rimini," which is set to music by Tschaikowsky, and "Lex Dioux Mendiantes" with music by Handel aranged by Sir Thomas Beecham...