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When he took office as chairman Senator Fess could not proclaim the party bone-Dry because too many Republican candidates are running as Wets. Therefore, last week, he weaseled conventionally: "I don't see how Prohibition can be made a party issue in this campaign. We will, however, take a decided stand on law enforcement...
...States be convened . . . to consider and determine whether the advice and consent of the Senate shall be given to the ratification of a treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armaments signed at London . . . Now, therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires that Senate to convene . . . on the seventh day of July at 12 o'clock noon...
...other hand the report does not in fact smell of "British hypocrisy" though angry Indians are sure to proclaim a veritable stench. Startling and definitely courageous is the proposal that the police - always the subject most rigidly "reserved" to British administration under Dyarchy - shall now be placed within the scope of native officialdom. Today the governor of a province may not appoint a native as his minister of police, but under the Commission's plan he could, and as time passed he would gradually be expected and finally forced by public opinion to appoint a native...
...name an art critic? An art critic is a public commentator, supposedly invested by virtue of his learning and taste with the right to interpret the esthetic trend to the commonalty, to denounce that which he considers bad and proclaim that which he considers good. In any society pretending to cultivation and beauty, the position of art critic should obviously command renown and respect. Yet who can name an art critic...
...five children into two classes, those of his First Series, those of his Second Series. All are of the same mother (TIME, Sept. 16). Edda is a stalwart young woman whose semi-public position has given her excuse to throw aside the traditional Italian woman's modesty and proclaim with her father: "Whoever is not a Father...