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...would permit, Judge F. Dickinson Letts declared before rendering his judgment: "This is an extremely strange case, unusual in all its aspects. . . . The evidence is so conclusive and so revolting to any sense of justice entertained by ordinary persons with respect to the care of children that I must mete out the full measure of punishment prescribed...
Concluded Judge Loefgren: "We must not be astonished if the [British Labor] Government . . . tries to find a solution or an interpretation to make both ends meet. . . . Neither party [Jewish or Arab] is satisfied . . . the government has struck the right note in trying to mete out justice...
...last week and settled a railway dispute by giving $15,000,000 additional wages each year to the 89,000 conductors and trainmen of the 50 Eastern railroads. And by so much, of course, they added to the yearly operating expenses of those lines and deprived investors of their mete of profits. Their decision (it went into effect Dec. 1) was the first made under the Watson-Parker Railroad Act, and, although obedience by employers and workers is optional, they have set a precedent for labor arguments. This Act, passed last year, provides a code duello for railroaders, every nicety...
...full amount of Italy's debt to them at 580 million pounds ($2,818,800,000) ; and considering that Britain is paying a total of $92,310,000 a year to the U. S., with nothing definitely in sight from France, Mr. Churchill undoubtedly felt impelled to mete out the heaviest practicable terms to Italy. Count Volpi, on the other hand, could point to the fact that the U. S. Debt Commissioners have granted proportionately much easier terms to Italy (TIME, Nov. 23) than those which they have thus far demanded from France. Count Volpi was therefore expected...
...members of the faculty. If students do not report violations and only faculty members do, then why should not faculty members do, then why should not faculty members decide the punishment of offenders? Why should the older men detect the infractions and then hand culprits over to students to mete out the penalty? A very considerable amount of time is required of undergraduates to dispose of persons who are detected by members of the faculty. If there is to be an Honor System it should be carried on wholly by students. If this is not done then faculty members might...