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...spring of 1787 George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and 52 other distinguished revolutionists gathered in Philadelphia to found a more perfect Union. Out of that long, sultry summer's work there was evolved a notable document scrupulously delimiting the powers and prerogatives of a proposed Federal Government. To Congress was granted right to tax, to provide for the common defense, "to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states and with the Indian tribes," to coin money, issue patents, hang pirates. Subsequently attached to the original Constitution was a Bill of Rights which ended thus: "The powers...
Thus began a newsworthy document which President James Lukens McConaughy last week sent to the two dozen Jewish undergraduates of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn. Set forth were prime facts & figures about medical schools, Jews and Gentiles...
...smashing document" against war in the form of a three-part talking motion picture entitled the "Next War" will be shown next Wednesday in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House under the direction of Dr. Francis S. Onderdonk and under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association and the Harvard Liberal Club...
Representing the mind of the House of Bishops, this document was written and read by Washington's Bishop Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman. Ranging over a number of social and economic matters, the Pastoral found in the world all manner of unholy ills: "greed . . . indecency . . . degeneracy . . . corruption . . . selfishness . . . unrest . . . hunger . . . despair . . . civil strife . . . indulgence . . . vulgarity . . . ambition . . . infamy . . . hatred . . . suspicion . . . disillusionment . . . privation . . . wickedness . . . misfortune . . . folly." But Bishop Freeman waxed most indignant in contemplating that institution which most plagues his Church-divorce. Tolerant as it has been in some respects, the Episcopal Church has never temporized in its battles against divorce...
Hardly had the French public finished reading resumes of this strange document when the Case of Paul Mariani, "the second Stavisky," and the mysterious death of Fong Wang Dong burst all over the nation's headlines...