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...notorious beyond repair. Such are "the law's delays." For ;25 years bar associations and public men have been trying to speed up court actions. One big cause of court delays are arguments over practice and procedure. One half the questions on which Federal Appellate Courts must rule concern procedure alone: Federal Courts are guided by a complex and undigested mass of laws passed by Congress, of judicial decisions and diverse practices in 48 different State courts. Although every President since William Howard Taft has joined the American Bar Association in pleading for Congress to cut the tangle, nothing...
Anglo-Persian. Spunky young Persians under their gruff and aging King of Kings have finally broken, denounced and torn up all important concessions previously held by the Great Powers except that of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd., of which concern the British Government is majority stockholder...
...life one of the most elaborate metallic scrap heaps that the history of civilization has recorded. A gaudy bauble it is. It shimmers with the simulation of bright reality, this modern civilization that we leave on your doorstep. It roars, it clatters, it shrieks and hums like a going concern. It will do almost anything but work. It is jammed - may I say in three classic haunts, jimmed, gypped and some of it is ready to be junked." In the Administration Building of Chicago's Century of Progress a telephone bell tinkled. A clerk picked up the receiver, heard...
...After asserting that Mr. Babbitt showed that there was something more to literature than an escape from reality and a vicarious romance, lie goes on to say that "Because this method of studying literature demanded a concentration on the ideas contained therein, he had little use for scholars who concern themselves primarily with sources and textual criticism." This may have caused him to miss the value of some literature, but this belief made him "restore to literary criticism some of the verve and vigor that it had long ceased to possess." His austerity came through his belief that his position...
...City Store, and the results of his experiment will be of very great value to the authorities broadening the diet which has been allowed to those on relief. I would not bother you with this detail except for the tragic urgency of the situation around here. . . . My only concern is to get it clearly before people that we lost on $12.80 a week instead of the $2.24 which was the figure quoted ... in your review. . . . (REV.) FLETCHER D. PARKER Immanuel Congregational Church Hartford, Conn. Sirs: WHAT? PRUNES BUT NO FRUIT? SEE DIET DERBY LAST PARAGRAPH PAGE 52 TIME...