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...Unofficial observers' have appeared at international conferences where America, if present at all, should have been present as an equal among equals. When, but yesterday, three Americans went to the Conference on Reparations, whose fruitful outcome all the world desires, Washington was prompt to disclaim all responsibility for their going though eager to take credit for whatever they might accomplish. We must face the humiliating fact that we have a government that does not dare to speak its mind beyond the three mile limit...
...recommends prompt ratification by the States of the Child Labor Constitutional Amendment...
...William T. Collins, Acting Mayor of New York, and that the Commandant of the Naval Reserve made a thorough investigation. But it was not the Naval Air Reserve that was responsible for the foolhardy flights. Captain Judson, of the Police Aviation Reserve, was to blame and has suffered a prompt dismissal...
...trustees of the Morgan Library, recently bequeathed to the public by John P. Morgan (TIME, Feb. 25), have been prompt to take advantage of their power under the bequest, of exhibiting the contents of the collection...
When man's great and good friend, the horse, slips and breaks his leg, he is promptly shot. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sees to that. When a Senator or a Representative slips and loses an election, he continues as a lame duck law maker for four months longer. To provide for the prompt decapitation of maimed ducks and halt politicians, a proposed amendment to the Constitution was brought before the Senate, The Senate passed the proposal by vote of 63 to 7. Its terms...