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...State of New York has the right to abolish prize fighting, but under this decision it has not the right to fix the price at which tickets shall be sold. Prize fighting is clearly covered by the decision, which mentions baseball, football and other sports...
...charter, which expires in 1934, be renewed for an "indeterminate" period. This is the rider. It puts the positive stamp of approval of a Republican administration on the greatest domestic achievement of the Wilson regime. To be sure, it would be possible for any Congress after 1934 to abolish the Federal Reserve system, but what Congress would dare and what President would permit the destruction of a well-tested stabilizer of banking? The Federal Reserve system, as many a banker will agree, is the U.S.'s most successful extra-curriculum activity. Men responsible for Federal Reserve Bank laws...
...sort of mediator between the college and the world at large, or more particularly, between the college and the alumni. He has to bridge the gap between certain of the alumni who want a bigger and better football team and certain of the faculty who would like to abolish the football team altogether. Whatever his personal convictions may be, he has to establish the golden mean between, not only two, but often half a dozen discordant-factions. On first thought it would seem that the logical remedy for the anomalous position of the college president were to divide his office...
Officiating Socialist. At the dais ordinarily occupied by the Throne stood that arch-Socialist Carl Lindhagan, Mayor of Stockholm, famous because he introduces before the Swedish Parliament every year a bill to abolish the Monarchy. He it was whom astute King Gustaf had chosen to perform the civil marriage of Astrid and Leopold. Hereafter when Mayor Lindhagan rises to present his bill there may well ensue jeers. Last week he testily remarked before the ceremony: "Of course I have no objection to uniting in marriage any two young people who appear to love each other." As the royal pair stood...
Princeton, N. J., October 9--Discovering that a rope sufficiently strong to stand the strain for a tug-of war between the 1200 members of the Freshman and Sophomore classes would cost at least $1000 the Princeton Senior council decided here today to abolish the event...