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...moot point. The conclusion of the Italo-British Treaty, which divided Abyssinia into spheres of influence, has been hotly denounced by Ras Taffari at the League of Nations, of which Abyssinia is a member. Moreover, the Anglo-Abyssinian treaty has been called unilateral (benefiting only Britain) and therefore not valid, according to the League. If this is so, Ras Taffari would merely have to denounce it to make it null and void and Britain could prevent the building of the dam only by force of arms...
...vise blackjacks, where to hit. He influenced, the city to enlarge the police force, insisted that new men be carefully taught the rudiments he had learned himself. Then he had a falling out. Rumors were that Mr. McLaughlin could not understand why the law against gambling dens was not valid in all parts of the city. Clarence H. Mackay offered him a position in the Postal Telegraph & Cable Companies as executive vice president. This, too, was a strange job for a banker. But he accepted. The company would pay him $75,000 a year. He would study the business...
...thing, however, that sent the Crimson music down to its usual early season defeat was its bad manners. There seems to be no valid reason why a Harvard band should not form the letters of even the smallest college team which invades the Stadium. These manoeuvres between the halves are at best but a gesture, and as such they were better not done at all than done ungracefully. If there are to be bands at football games, let them follow the accepted code of football bands, and return the compliments of rival musicians...
...international symposium enterprise of the Phillips Brooke House, there is a valid excuse for a formal segregation of the foreign students from the entire group. This is not merely a social gathering at which differences of national feeling are extracted and exhibited to the wonder and amusement of the native sons. It can rather be a sincere expression of an intelligently heterogeneous group and as such a incalculable value to everyone concerned...
...American Legion Convention in Paris (TIME, May 2). Further, the Chamber appropriated 3,700,000 francs ($145,000) for the Legionnaires' entertainment and decreed the issuing of a special postage stamp to be licked by Legionnaires and stuck upon their letters home. Many of these stamps, valid for the convention period only, will be treasured by thrifty recipients, locked away in strong boxes, brought out decades hence and bartered for gain...