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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next Tuesday worthy Cambridge voters--and that means many members of the Harvard Faculty--will go to the polls to select two of the sterling quartet, who will compete in the final election in November. Indications now point to the choice of Quinn and Russell at the primaries. That at least will mean a cessation of Robart torchlight parades, and of processions of small children chanting "Yea, yea, we want Shea!" Harvard Square will lapse into its customary quiet non-political atmosphere, and only the Faculty and the local students who have assumed the heavy burden of citizenship will...
Mayor Duvall's defense counsel, who mean to appeal his conviction through the Indiana Supreme Court, said: "John Duvall isn't the first Indianapolis man made to stand and defend himself solely because he was unfortunate enough to run and be elected to office." The charges against unfortunate John Duvall had included his acceptance of $14,500 from one William H. Armitage, gambler, saloonist and politician, in return for the privilege of naming three city officials. This privilege Mr. Duvall was said to have revoked later when he found it conflicted with similar privileges he had promised...
...right to impose whatever duties it sees fit, but that the treatment it offers should not discriminate against any country. In other words, it upholds the principle of most-favored-nation treat-ment,* i. e., that all countries should automatically receive equal tariff treatment. But this does not mean that the treatment between two countries can be equal, because of the difference in purchasing powers, price levels, commodities, etc. In illustration of this the U. S. note pointed out that 95% of imports from Brazil are admitted duty free, but that a large proportion of exports to Brazil have...
...ridiculous pomposities that beset princes of every romance, are the details that Director Lubitsch loves to fondle and set forth. In the end the prince returns to marry a very unattractive body with a long title. The little maid turns sadly away to face what seems to mean a career as "college widow." But the film is never allowed to be as sad as it is merry...
...make myself over?' you ask," he went on. "Here are the three things which, to my mind, must be done in order that man may renew himself. He must first of all let Christ into his heart, and by that I mean that he must attain absolute humility. Then, he must share the beauties and joys of life with his friends, and not keep his happiness to himself. Finally," concluded Bishop Slattery, "he must turn his entire attention to making over one man, and that man is himself...