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Review Refused. Under its new powers for restricting its calendar, the Court refused to review a number of cases. The action in refusing review was of course equivalent to a decision against the appellant, since the decision of the lower court remained in force. Among the cases refused review were two patent suits and an appeal of the Kansas City Southern Railway against a valuation of its property made by the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...Metropolitan Opera Company does not believe itself called upon to lower its standards for the sake of proving its 'Americanism...
...Column 3, reads : "Exclaimed M. Caillaux with weary irony." Of course, I don't know, but is not the satire? pointing Is out not of irony the saying foibles one of thing - people meaning the opposite? He meant exactly what he said. You place yourself with those lower classes who enjoy using sarcasm" when they mean "irony...
...Democrats propose abolition of many special taxes, retention of the Federal inheritance tax at lower rates, reduction of the surtax, an indefinite amount and increase of personal exemption, perhaps to $5,000. Different Democrats, of course, present slightly different plans; they have not got together...
...short end of the radio spectrum, interference between the waves is avoidable through proportionately shorter spacing. Where only 12 stations could operate in a 100-metre range of the upper scale, many times that number can be accommodated by the first 100 metres of the lower scale. This fact, together with economy of power consumption and the proven superiority of short waves in penetrating belts of static, is what has led to exploration of the short-wave field. The Hammond system promises to multiply the multiple possibilities of this field, by 8 at least, probably by a higher number...