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...Richmond gives a ball for the Allied forces at Brussels, but when a courier gallops up with word that Napoleon has marched his myriad zealots to the city gates, England's finest leave a half empty punch bowl to march forth amid the plaudits of the multitude and the tender lamentations of the fair. Dainty handkerchiefs flutter from the balconies as the troops march past, for it has been "the last waltz, Madeline, and m' regiment leaves at dawn." Historically speaking, just a trifle before dawn...
Only immediate result was retirement from the East Texas fields of the Federal Tender Board, which had executed President Roosevelt's unconstitutional ban on interstate shipments of hot oil. Its retirement, however, was by no means the signal for reopening every secret valve and bypass. A stronger Texas hot oil law went into action on Christmas Day, and despite the thuggery, bribery, judicial connivance and wholesale corruption that taint most oil operations in the East Texas fields, State control appeared to be working for once...
...sentence of death in Paris last week lay a surly, silent 19-year-old girl named Violette Nozières. Not since 1887, when Jeanne Thomas was executed for burning up her mother in the fireplace, had a Frenchwoman paid the supreme penalty for murder. French juries are notoriously tender with wives who murder their husbands, but Violette Nozières was no wife. A spoiled brat with a fondness for nightclubs and loose living, she succeeded, after many attempts, in poisoning her father, a railway engineer, and her mother. Then she turned on the gas to make the crime...
...Sciences give to cinema professionals. To R. B. Clardy, a Los Angeles commercial artist, went $250 for his 200-ft. film, New Horizon. A 20-year-old Japanese, Tatuschi Okamoto, who won the photography award two years ago, last week took $100 second prize with a picture called Tender Friendship...
Since the question of motive comes so strongly to the fore and since the whole council is indirectly. Implicated, the two Juniors having acted as members and representatives of that body, would it be playing fair to suggest that both men tender their "conditional" resignations, pending an investigation of the matter and an assignment of responsibility? I feel that if would be only fair to themselves and to the council that they do this. I think there are many other undergraduates who feel the same way about it Samuel T. Orton...