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...foreign sovereignty. Where there is no sovereignty there is no obligation of protection. The best security to the Philippine Islands is the protection of and by the United States. . . . "The people should realize that political activity is not the end of life, but rather a means to obtain those economic, industrial and social conditions essential to a stable existence." Next Step. President Coolidge having, as everyone expected, upheld Governor General Wood in vetoing the plebiscite, the next step is for the U. S. Congress to grant certain governmental and economic reforms which will soothe the independence agitation. These reforms were...
...mailed over 1200 copies of its new pamphlet, "The Choice of a Field of Concentration", prepared in collaboration with the Committee on Choice of Electives in the University. A copy has been sent to every freshman student in Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, while anyone desiring to do so may obtain the pamphlet by applying to the Committee on Choice of Electives at University...
...opportunity will be offered to Seniors to obtain positions when representatives of the Standard Oil Company will be at 2 University Hall on Wednesday, April 13. These men will be here for the purpose of interviewing students who are interested in obtaining positions in the Foreign Service of the Standard Oil Company. This work, which will be mainly in the Orient and Near East, allows a great variety of occupation ranging from office work and sales management, up to the organization and development of agencies...
...Chester Alan Arthur (1830-86), New York widower-politician, polished, unfastidious, who was nominated for Vice President as running mate of James Abram Garfield to mollify and obtain the political support of Spoilsman Roscoe Conkling and his gangs of "Stalwarts." When Garfield died from Assassin Charles Guiteau's bullet, Arthur served for three years as "the only man of the world, in the best sense of the term, who has ever occupied the White House...
These words, spoken in a suite at the Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, by an industrious Jew, Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, marked the end of the first week of a libel suit. Mr. Sapiro wants to vindicate his race and, incidentally, to obtain $1,000,000 in damages from Mr. Ford for certain articles published in the Dearborn Independent in 1924-25, which pictured a national menace in Mr. Sapiro's farm organization activities (TIME, March...