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...financial policy loomed last week as the annual convention of the Radical-Socialist party opened at Nice. Before the convention appeared M. Herriot, Radical standard bearer, to insist that France can balance her budget only by a direct levy on capital. Likewise appeared M. Caillaux, Finance Minister, to plead for the powerful support of the convention, in order that he might be given one more chance to balance his budget by "orthodox" means...
...stickler for the formalities of the Court. Although a Democrat, after elevation to the Court he declined to contribute to Democratic campaign funds (as he had previously done), holding that the members of the Court must never touch politics. When his own daughter came to plead before the Court there was no precedent, no regulation covering the contingency, but he voluntarily retired from the bench and did not sit on the case. Chief Justice Fuller, Confederate veteran, the only Roman Catholic Chief Justice, used to remark that he had jurisdiction over the entire U. S. except the Fuller home...
...this court which is optionally provided for in the constitution of the Church. In this case it would have meant three years delay, to the next triennial convention before the machinery of the court could be approved. The Bishops declined to call the court. They allowed Bishop Brown to plead his case-to argue for half an hour that he had not had a fair trial, but his lawyer was not admitted. Then a vote was 91 to 11 to sustain the findings of the courts. Bishop Ethelbert Talbot of Bethlehem, Presiding Bishop, promptly summoned Bishop Brown to St. Paul...
...push them meaningly out of the way; or stop sometimes to tell them just what little gamins they are to beg in the street. But there are many who are thoughtless enough to encourage their efforts with an extra coin, for back they come in every growing numbers to plead for what they have no right to expect. Not only is this becoming an extreme annoyance to the residents of Mount Auburn Street, but, far more important, it is laying the foundations of shiftlessness in the minds of the boys themselves. It will cease only when the men who have...
...their heads but a bitter and windy laughter. These critics have listened to the compositions of Composers Ravel and Satie, whose music laughs at music, have seen the works of Sculptor Nadelman, whose sculpture laughs at sculpture, until the accumulation of all this malign mirth has inspired them to plead: "If we must laugh, let us laugh honestly. This mockery is unworthy of the staunch hearts. Where is the belly-shaking-chuckle of Aristophanes? Where in Music, in Sculpture, is the Classic Spirit...