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Taxpayers of Westchester County, N. Y. held a mass meeting last week in White Plains to protest the cost of their State Government. One speaker suggested that the Republican Legislature adopt a greatly reduced budget, let Democratic Governor Lehman veto it if he dare. State Senator Pliny W. Williamson (Republican) expostulated: "You wouldn't want the courts and State institutions and offices closed for lack of funds, would...
...siege of Pampeluna in 1521, a French cannon ball whizzed between the legs of a Basque knight named Íñigo de Oñez y Loyola, breaking his right shin and tearing his left calf. For the Roman Catholic Church, beleaguered by the Protestant Reformation, that shot was providential. Íñigo, laid up in his castle (and ever after afflicted with a limp), began thinking pious thoughts which led him, in 1534, to form a "flying squadron," the Society of Jesus, in the front ranks of the Church's Counter Reformation against Protestantism...
Applications for the fourth annual H-Y-P Conference are drawing to a close, and students will not be permitted to apply after the beginning of next week, as the quotas for the Harvard delegation to the five round tables are being filled...
...Yankee must lead America on a wise course if the Yankee is to prosper," Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology, said yesterday, when he addressed a conference of Y. M. C. A. leaders at Springfield...
Dean Hanford recommended student participation in the H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs as "a unique opportunity," in a statement yesterday, and called his own part in the 1937 conference "one of the most valuable experiences in my work as a teacher of Government...