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If the morning services consisted of prayers, scriptures, and perhaps only a hymn, the matter would merit no objection. As it is, however, the anthems and responses which the choir sings three times a week, and the important part it plays in the Sunday services demand conditions which will do...
"There is certainly a place in Harvard for a real Communist Club, and although members of such a body might not be elected on masse to the Porcellian Club. Certainly there would be no objection on he part of the University. Freedom of speech and thought and action are prerogatives...
The second objection to the shorter week with wages unreduced is the difficulty of putting it into practice. Competition would severely injure those businesses which would be sufficiently wealthy to adopt it. Nothing short of an act of Congress could make the plan at all effective, and it is doubtful...
This objection stirred Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck, outspoken chairman of the Albany Port District Commission, to advance a startling new idea at the Senate hearing: "Before the U. S. should invest in the canalization of the St. Lawrence, it should place itself in a position to be a 50% beneficiary...
But if the short session votes beer, would President Hoover approve? Most indications last week were that he would not. He has repeatedly held that to authorize that which the 18th Amendment prohibits is nullification. With him the result would hinge on the moral question of whether beer is intoxicating...