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...Doubtless the ball team has had a real grievance in the partisan selection of umpires. But for the season now opening umpires are to be chosen by the A.A. from a list of officials approved by the New England Conference of Colleges, just as in hockey, basketball, and other minor sports. Hence-forth, then, the cry of unfairness and preconceived bias cannot be levelled at the umpires with any shred of justice or right...
Viewed from the vantage point of three thousand miles, away from the guns and targets of local politics, "The New Deal", as written by these London editors, is doubtless a highly authoritative and unbiased judgment of the last four years of American history. Perhaps the most convincing phase of their treatment is the plentiful supply of factual material and indices. Information which we have long been wanting to see assembled together, and for which we should have had to scurry all over the country, has been made an integral part of the Administration analysis...
...Many of the refusals were doubtless warranted. But can it be said that full justice is achieved when a Court is forced by the sheer necessity of keeping up with its business to decline, without even an explanation, to hear 87% of the cases presented to it by private litigants...
...fountain pen, a plaque and $11.50 in cash for being judged the best bird of his breed, the best old Owl and the best old African Owl. Had the Parlor Rollers in last week's show been capable of reversing their situation instead of themselves, they would doubtless have picked, as the best pigeon judge in the U. S., a precise mild-mannered expert who, unlike the rest of his breed, judged not one or two classes but about 100, or one-third of the show's total. He was Jacob Justin Keifer, only professional pigeon judge...
...premiere. At a Hollywood super-dinner to Producer Zukor, Cinema Tsar Will Hays called Producer Zukor "a splendid American', a great leader," Leopold Stokowski conducted a 150-piece orchestra, Paramount's contract players joined in a floor show which, on a basis of combined salaries involved, was doubtless the most expensive ever staged...