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...only pretext for a profession of friendship at that moment was apropos of the appointment of the new Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., who had not yet left Japan. But precedent had placed an imaginary blindfold over the Secretary's eyes, saying: "Hear nothing of a new Ambassador, see nothing of a new Ambassador, speak nothing of a new Ambassador until he has brought his credentials in person to the President. Till then, he is invisible, intangible, nonexistent...
Dean Greenough explained last night that all voters, even if they are on probation, may apply to their Deans for excused absences. He stressed, however, the fact that each individual must apply in person. Men under 21 will find it impossible to use election day as a pretext for gaining an unwarranted holiday...
...real trouble has been that the U. S. Government has, under the specious pretext of a "franchise tax," confiscated the earnings of Reserve Banks over dividends at a modest return to surplus account. The Reserve Banks should be allowed to accumulate large surpluses, so that, in just such times as the present, they could pay dividends out of surplus for years if necessary...
...defense of moneys loaned on private initiative? Should they not be told that the official Government at Washington, which has taken no official cognizance of the proceedings culminating in the announcement of the latest international financial agreement, will not permit under any plan of patriotism, moral obligation or specious pretext, the conversion of the young men of America into military and naval battering-rams to enforce with official sanction that which has never received official sanction...
...rector of Trinity Parish in Fort Worth, Tex., the only Episcopal parish in the residential section. An element in the parish desired to get control for purposes not entirely spiritual. Failing to dominate the rector, they decided to oust him and last year seized upon his theology as a pretext and charged him with heresy. The Bishop-one Harry Moore-apparently took fright at the storm of protest from beyond the borders of Texas and "quashed" the heresy proceedings on the ground that certain Northern Bishops were as liberal as the rector. But the Bishop left the stigma of heresy...