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Registration. By "Hague-Land"' is meant the strongly Democratic northern counties of New Jersey, dominated by the Hudson County machine of Boss-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. A typical complication of the election was seen last week in Hudson and Essex Counties. N. J. Republicans had been 'trying to fasten shame on Boss Hague. They obtained a new election law and challenged some 40,000 names on the heavy registration .'lists', as illegal. The Democrats retaliated -by charging that in Atlantic City, a Re publican stronghold. 2,370 names were il legally registered, including names...
...make clear that it implied no slighting comparison of the Socialist platform to that of the two major parties in its editorial entitled, "Crying in the Wilderness". The sentence in regard to the clear cut principles of the Socialist platform and the baffling indistinction of the other, two was meant to establish this beyond a shadow of doubt...
...permit me to enlighten your omniscient Religious Editor. The command to put the blood of the pascal lamb on the two door-posts and on the lintel (Exodus 12, 7) was meant only for that one time, i. e. the time of the actual exodus. This is the accepted opinion of all Talmudic authorities and it is also self evident, since the mark was meant as a signal for the destroying-angel who killed the first born of Egypt to pass over the houses of the Israelites, hence, in subsequent generations when there was no destroying-angel killing Egyptian first...
...Walsh were doing had demanded from his Attorney General immediate delivery of the opinion he had requested 224 days before. If it was obvious that the World and Senator Walsh had chosen a politically important moment to force the issue, it seemed equally obvious that Attorney General Sargent had meant to delay his unfortunate news until after Election...
...Spencer Churchill, affable but shrewd Chancellor of the Exchequer. Very soon it appeared that Host Churchill was not excessively anxious to discuss and come to an agreement upon the grave matter which had caused Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given by their representatives at Geneva: namely that an International Finance Commission shall be set up with all appropriate speed, to readjust the whole structure of Reparations Payments (TIME. Sept. 24). However, Chancellor Churchill has long been known...