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Maurice Colburne is the detestable prince who opens his interview with Princess Anne by informing her "I don't like you." Our personal opinion that his makeup and accent were a bit obvious was overridden by the audience in general which seemed happily affected by all that went...
Half way round the world in Washington, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, prime promoter of Philippine independence, sat at his flower-banked desk in the Senate Office Building and grinned victoriously. The Senate, following House action week before (TIME, Jan. 23), had overridden (66-to-26) a thumping Presidential veto on H. R. 7233, to free the Philippine Islands...
...this extreme position could be deemed to be well taken, it is manifest that the fiat of a State Governor, and not the Constitution of the U. S., would be the supreme law of the land. . . . When there is a substantial showing that exertion of State power has overridden private rights . . . the subject is necessarily one for judicial inquiry. ... To such a case the Federal judicial power extends." Chief Justice Hughes would not discuss the use of military force: "The question ... is simply with respect to the Governor's attempt to regulate by executive order the lawful...
...This is a battle for principle. . . . It is being waged to keep our party as a whole free from dictation by a small group representing the interests in the nation which have no place in our party. . . . Stick to your guns. . . . The nation must not and shall not be overridden. . . . We intend to stand fast...
This is not the first indication that football is treated on the Pacific Coast with an exaggerated seriousness. The determination to win at all costs has overridden things which properly precede it in importance, among them a decent respect for the rights of individuals. In the present case that determination has revealed itself in a ruthless professionalism which has not scrupled even to cast an implicit insult at its football rival. The implication that Notro Dame was not unwilling in bribe a member of the Southern California squad considerably dulls the luster of the Trojan victory...