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There are generous, sentimental old ladies who throw out lavish silver to the poor and there are trained social workers who, while providing a temporary subsistence, try to establish needy families on a self-supporting basis. Which will Harvard...
...General Election . . . my ministers received a clear and emphatic mandate ... to pursue a policy designed to re-establish . . . confidence in our financial stability and to frame plans for ensuring a favorable balance of trade." Carefully the speech avoided saying that these "plans" would include tariff. His Majesty also announced that last year's abortive economic conference of all British Dominion delegates at London will be resumed next year at Ottawa, added a pious allusion to the deadlocked Indian Round Table Conference: "It is my earnest prayer that the deliberations . . . may be crowned with success...
...Postmaster General Brown authorized the hiring of 176,205 extra employes to handle Christmas mail. C. Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania planned to establish relief camps for the jobless, to put them to work building roads...
...very still while Grant Mouser, defense attorney, branded her tale as false and read chapter after chapter from the two books to prove it. Once Miss Britton passed a handkerchief over her face when Lawyer Mouser, his grey hair disheveled with excitement charged that she had neglected utterly, to establish the paternity of her child while President Harding yet lived. Judge Killits, unexcited, ruled that statements in the book were libelous per se and that "there is nothing left for the plaintiff to prove except the extent of the publication...
Observers suspected the Exalted Nizam of guile. According to the Koran, the Caliph of Islam must be a temporal ruler. Palestine Moslems have been trying for years, were still trying last week, to establish the present deposed Caliph in Jerusalem as "ruler" of a plot of ground about the size of the Papal State. In London this scheme is being urged by Shankat Ali, Moslem Delegate to the Indian Round Table Conference. But Christian Britain, who rules Jerusalem, hesitates to make the "Holy City" of Jews and Christians the seat of Islam's Caliphate. What...