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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here's your check for subscription. After having paid you the money, I feel that I may make one complaint. "All the news" is your maxim. Eugene V. Debs died a while ago and so far as I could find, your paper made not one single mention of him. Wasn't the courage of this man during his lifetime, no matter what you may have thought of his views, a sufficient justification for at least a passing reference to him? Or is TIME'S measure of greatness financial rather than moral...
...pleaded with snarling filibusterers for the passage of his Second Deficiency bill, dearer to him than all investigating of slush funds. He, Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming, 82, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, had made this plea more than 20 times during the 40½-hour Reed v. Reed wrangle. He had spent half of one night on a Senate lounge when he should have been home in bed. His snow-white moustache drooped; his eyes were sunken, bleary; his voice quavered. Somebody said: "I object." His last plea was dashed to the floor like a broken relic. Like...
...under either of these classifications, that the New York law limiting scalpers' charges to 50c in advance of the rate printed on the face of the ticket is unconstitutional. This decision reversed a lower court opinion and ended the case of Tyson & Brother, United Theatre Ticket Offices, Inc. v. New York State officials...
...subject. Author Connell is an Irish poet who was made cheerful by being born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. With no sorrows of Deirdre for ballast, his fancy flies off on such tangents as The Prince Has the Mumps, which is said to have tickled the imperial risibilities of George V...
Besides the captain-elect, others who received their letters in the Crimson's 30 to 16 victory over Yale last Saturday are Captain J. S. Malick, J. D. Leekley, Kenneth Dorn, and W. V. Coombs, all of whom composed with Barbee the starting five, and J. A. Vogel, F. M. Eaton, and A. F. Ely, who got into the game in substitute roles...