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Freight Handlers. By vote of 6 to 1, the convention voted to suspend from the Federation the union of railway and steamship clerks, freight handlers, express and station employees unless it should abandon claims to jurisdiction over drivers and chauffeurs, etc., who belong to another union. The delegates of the suspended union, which has 160,000 members, threatened that their union would withdraw from the Federation rather than yield...
...separate the undergraduate from the graduate, so that the former is apt to be too youthfully irresponsible and the latter too serious and professional: we separate one department of knowledge from another: finally we separate education from life itself, so that when the college course is over we abandon books and serious discussion and lapse into a life of mere business, estranged from the world's intellectual heritage...
...offered a choice between science with its unanimous acceptance of the evolutionary principle, and religion with its necessary appeal to things unseen and unprovable, they are much more likely to abandon religion than to abandon science, and if such a choice is forced on the people, the churches will lose many of their best educated young people, those upon whom they must depend for leadership in the coming years...
...maneuvering in Near Eastern waters. L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who precipitated the break with the Turks at Geneva (TIME, Sept. 28), almost paraphrased Turkish utterances: "I can imagine no action more fatal to the honor of Britain than for us to abandon our rights in Mosul...
From the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate, went a strongly worded letter to Premier Baldwin asserting that "there would be a widespread sense of shame among Englishmen if the Government were to abandon Christians in a British protectorate to the Turks...