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Such were typical paid advertisements last week in the "agony column" of the latest issue of the anti-Jewish fortnightly Am Heiligen Quell Deutscher Kraft ("At the Holy Well of German Power"), conducted by General Erich Ludendorff who used to rate as a crackpot. Last week a Ludendorff editorial announced that the Jewish people are secretly supporting the Japanese people to launch a war of Asia against Europe, "so that the nations shall tear each other to pieces for the benefit of the Jews...
Such caution served only to increase Oregonians' respect for Chancellor Hunter's qualifications. Fervently they hoped that so impartial a referee might quell their dogfight, set the pack once more upon the trail of learning...
Although the league was obviously wrong in announcing its activity as that of a University organization and as such participating in the strike, it seems that the Columbus police were not entirely justified in their methods of handling the students involved. Discretion is needed to quell a disturbance of this nature without violence, little thought is required to do so with a night stick...
Last week the champions of the A. F. of L. debouched in the U. S. Senate to quell the bitter opposition of industry to the Wagner Labor Bill. They were prepared for a desperate struggle. Instead, their opponents barely emerged from the cloak rooms. There was a short debate and then it was all over, the Wagner Labor Bill had passed, 63-to-12, sped on to the House for action. Industry and the A. F. of L. were left blinking in astonishment. What did the Senate's act portend...
...slightly weakened by the absence of several regulars, the line is built around Nipper Knapp, whose strength is as the strength of ten. Against Princeton in the first game, and against the French Rugby Club, Knapp played a stellar game throughout the full seventy minutes, and is expected to quell the men from Tigertown...