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...agreement between Britain, France, India, Japan, Holland, Portugal and Siam to Abolish opium smoking in the Far East within 15 years from the date when a League commission shall have declared that China has curbed overproduction of opium and eliminated the danger of smuggling. (The U. S. delegation wanted the prohibition made immediately effective...
...wish to gain for crew the support of the College and the "Graduates", he went on and abolish the feeling that the crew is an exclusive organization. The crew is an organization for the College, and it must be supported by the College, if it is to gain any success whatever. A feeling of unity and cooperation between the graduates, the undergraduates, and the crew is essential for success in any sport, and especially for crew in its present condition...
...still technically possible to adopt an amendment (to prohibit a U. S. citizen from taking a title from a foreign country) proposed by Congress in 1810 and never ratified. It is also still possible to pass an amendment (to prohibit any amendment to the Constitution which would abolish slavery) proposed by Congress in 1861. In practice, however, no amendment has ever been adopted unless it was successful during the first four years after being presented to the states. In only one case was an amendment rejected by more than onequarter of the states and subsequently ratified; this was the reconstruction...
...Retail Merchants' Association of Boston is inaugurating a movement to abolish parades. They interfere with business, and business is first, last, and always! It is impossible that the stolid merchants of Boston can have calculated the effect of their proposal. Do they not realize that a populace, deprived of its last amusement, becomes sullen and revolutionary? Do they not remember that the Roman emperors fell when they grew stingy with the circus? Let them consult their own memories and recall the blind anger which surged up in them when a tryant father kept them from the elephants and lions...
Another major decision of the Council was to abolish dual commandership in the Army. Hitherto, each com-mander had attached to him a political commissar, or "archangel," as Comrade Krylenko, onetime Chief Com-mander of the Russian forces, called them. An order of a commander was invalid until countersigned by the commissar ; but such is the state of things in Russia that the Moscow autocrats can now trust their officers and are, incidently, enabled to raise their...