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...course of preparation. Topics to be touched on were easily foreseen-the Kellogg Treaty, the Cruiser Bill, Farm Relief, Tariff, Economy, Prosperity, etc. etc. Senator McNary of Oregon had audience at the White House and announced that he was framing an agricultural measure which would, this time, omit features that have so vexed the President and include features which the President approves. Approved features, long known in a general way, were hinted at in a speech last week by President Coolidge to the National Grange as they will probably be hinted at again in the message to Congress...
...Riviera route is of greater social importance than the trans-Pyrenean freight line recently opened by the King of Spain and the President of France (TIME, July 23). Unfortunately relations between France and Italy are just now so tense that at the last minute it was considered wiser to omit the gesture of a nation-to-nation handclasp across the frontier. Therefore M. Le President and Il Duce kept their too potent palms out of contact, last week, but sent their Ministers of Public Works to shake just an ordinary shake...
...asked the South to be sportsman¬ like in the election, to omit "personal bit¬terness." He cited the political fights of the brother-governors of Tennessee?Alfred A. Taylor, Republican, under whose patriarchal auspices he was introduced, and the late Robert Taylor, Democrat? as illustrating the spirit in which he hoped the national election will be decided...
Last year there were several complaints that the courses recommended in the Vagabond were only in the fields of History, Literature, Music, Philosophy and Fine Arts, and that there was a tendency to omit lectures in science. The Vagabond must admit that he personally is primarily interested in the former types of lectures but he will also strive to keep in close touch with science courses...
Rotary International was internationally roasted last week by a Catholic bishop in Spain and a Methodist pastor in Manhattan. Because Rotary clubs seem to him to omit the religious idea, because it is "damnable for individuals or societies to try to moralize with a naturalist or atheistic doctrine," the Bishop of Valencia issued a bulletin discouraging Catholics from-joining the clubs...