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...said that Premier Mussolini intends to summon a general election next Fall, and is therefore anxious to get an early approval of the electoral reform. This is rendered even more urgent by demonstrations favoring the monarchy but hostile to Fascismo, which were held recently in several parts of Italy...
...some "undescribed political entanglement." This objection, Mr. Hoover points out, is raised on ignorance, because there is absolutely no compulsory provision in the President's proposal. " We do not need to submit any case to the Court, unless we feel like doing so. ... No other nation can summon us into court. . . . The Court itself cannot summon us in-nor . . . exert upon us any kind of compulsion, not even moral." It is worth while noting that no politician of any prominence is making this first objection. 2) Those who object to the Court because it is connected with the League...
...dark house in a rocky ravine. They are the possessors of an appalling secret. A French captain penetrates to their retreat. They demonstrate to him an experiment in the latest methods of magnetism and hypnotism. Through the course of the action horror creeps nearer and nearer. Spirits summon a man bound in a trance. The whole interest of this shuddery tale lies in the culminating horror. It does not take rank with the best work of Algernon Blackwood. But it has all the necessary substance of a very exciting horror story...
However, let us risk it. Let us declare positively that this particular "Bok of Danish Verse" is different. What the exigencies of text and interpretation may have been, we do not know; we do not want to know. We know only that the translators, to summon Coleridge, "first studied patiently, meditated deeply, understood minutely, till knowledge, become habitual and intuitive," linked itself to natural poetic felicity and power. The rest, the process of gestation, the travail and torment, we prefer to surmise. For the present translators are, as they ought to be, poets--fundamentally-and poets, even the more, that...
...investment, but mostly due to the inability of its banks to float needed loans. United States is providing the Filipinos with enough education to better their condition, but since the banks cannot provide the money, no progress is being made. If the Islands has an Aladdin's lamp to summon a Rugger, Rothschild, or Morgan, their problem would be straightway solved. But they have not, and the only alternative left is that of regaining financial health through the establishment of a sound banking system...