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...methods are provided by Article V of the Constitution for its amendment: 1) "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments. . . ." 2) "The Congress ... on the application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments which . . . shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several states or by conventions in three fourths thereof. . . ." To date, only the first method has been used...
...closing days of May, he was to speak in Alabama (where Underwood, who favors the rule, will have to fight for reelection). The tentative schedule of speeches: JUNE-In New Hampshire (where Moses, who opposes the rule, will stand for reelection). JULY-In Colorado (where Senator Rice V. Means will stand for reelection). AUGUST-Undetermined. SEPTEMBER-Undetermined. OCTOBER-In Georgia (where Senator George will stand for reelection). The Governor of Missouri, Mr. Baker, having attended the funeral of Senator Selden P. Spencer (TIME, May 25), took thought. He appointed Circuit Judge George H. Williams of St. Louis, a Republican, born...
...Mary Elizabeth Haldane, nee Sanderson. She had celebrated her 100th birthday but recently (TIME, May 4, EDUCATION). She remembered the first steam engine and the first balloon. She remembered the days when children honied from school blackened and blued by the schoolmaster's rod. She had seen George V throned and Edward VII laid away. She had seen the great Victoria, Queen and Empress, go to her last rest and, 64 years earlier, had seen the girl Victoria take the crown. She had seen the entire reign of William...
...following have been appointed assistant secretaries for the opening year: E. C. Aswell '26, L. B. R. Barker '26, D. C. Gates '26, R. D. Tucker '26, F. Q. Brown '27, F. V. Field...
...NEWER SPIRIT-V. F. Calverton -Boni, Liveright ($2.50). This author applies to contemporary letters a new theory of criticism. The approach is sociological, the method scientific. "Revolutions in aesthetics," he says, "are due to revolutions in ideas, but every revolution in ideas is due to a revolution in the social structure." It was the invention of the steam-engine that made people interested in the tragedies of factory girls, the amours of merchants, when only those of monarchs had before satisfied them. His attack is directed chiefly against those critics who subscribe to Stuart P. Sherman's affecting doctrine...