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...took us eighteen years to add the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution to right the wrong done by the fallible judge who changed his mind one night on the income tax. Recently we have had the votes of more than two-thirds of the Congressmen and two-thirds of the Senators repudiate the decision of a fifth fallible judge on the question of child slavery: and now we are in the midst of submitting to the 48 states the humane. God-given amendment in behalf of the childhood of the nation. . . . How much better it would be if the Constitution...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick is again the center of public attention. Seen in historical perspective, the "Modernist" controversy is the logical issue of Luther's successful revolt against authority in the sixteenth century. Since every new step in matters of importance is almost certain to crystallize the liberal and conservative tempers of men into rival camps of champions and opponents of the innovation, a sharp division between "Modernist" and "Fundamentalist" has taken place. The leading voices in the Presbyterian general assembly, upholding the existing order, strove to avoid the threatened cleavage in the church, and did not openly denounce...
...colt. Ladkin's time, 1.49 4-5 for the mile-and-an-eighth, was but 4/5 of a second outside of Grey Lag's course record, set last year under identical weight (123 Ibs.). Moreover, it was said that Jockey Maiben pulled Ladkin up through the last sixteenth...
...summer when five of its members join a company of travelling players which is to tour through Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine presenting its repertoire of short plays in one nights stands at rural communities all along the line after the manner of the strolling players of the sixteenth century...
...After all, they must be operated by human beings, and, human beings are vulnerable. Probably the horrors of war will be increased, but its effectiveness, which has not increased with modern weapons, will remain the same. The proportion of casualties to total-numbers engaged has not increased since the sixteenth century--probably not. the amount or punishment which human beings will stand; there is little likelihood that this proportion will ever be substantially increased...