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...them in their chairs. Nine hours later they arose together after concluding an agreement so momentous they did not trust themselves to announce it to the public. Because President Hoover had pressed them into this conference, because he was moral sponsor for their negotiations, and because his word might commit the Interstate Commerce Commission they let him reveal the results of their efforts...
...happened to her. to point an unctuous moral for his readers. It so happens that news of the story breaks on the day that Nancy's pretty but illegitimate daughter is to be married. Griefstricken, Nancy and the worthy man who has married her despite her shame, commit suicide...
Many professors at last week's meeting feared that such a plan would turn the Association into a Professors' Union, would be unenforceable. They met in private sessions, voted to form a commit tee which will take up the question, re port perhaps next December, perhaps later...
Petitions for pardon of Warren K. Billings and Thomas J. Mooney have bothered governors of California since 1916, when the two were jailed for a Preparedness Day bombing which they have continued to insist they did not commit. Last July several States' witnesses renounced the testimony which had convicted Mooney & Billings, reopening the case (TIME, July 14 et seq.). The State Supreme Court, which has sole jurisdiction over Billings because he is a second-offender, sat not as a court but as an advisory pardon board. They heard the entire bombing rehashed. The Governor said he would...
...earthy, uncomprehending Breton peasants of La Motte, France, Dr. Pierre Etienne Meral, Russian-born, onetime personal physician to King Menelek II of Abyssinia, announced that he intended to commit suicide. A melancholy Tolstoian who could not conscientiously use violence on himself, he decided to starve himself to death. Last week, after 60 days of debilitating hunger, he succeeded...