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...worth printing. One of the San Francisco newspapers carried to New York bore in its headlines: BANDITS KILL POKER PLAYER; POSSES SCOUR MOUNTAINS FOR WOUNDED MAN; MRS. KERR FINED $10 FOR BATTERY OF WOMAN. Scandal may be useful for a national circulation, but " local stories" are not. If aeroplanes extend the range of newspaper circulation they may do away with "local news." But they have...
John Henry MacCracken, president of Vassar, spoke at Chautauqua: " One of the greatest tragedies of the world is the growing wrath against the Jews in European Universities. I pray God it may not extend to our American universities...
...sacrifices to which you have consented in the general interest certainly have been heavy, but the result is worth the price paid. May this peaceful development extend throughout the whole world, liberating us from this oppression of conflict, turmoil and fear, and making us really free." (See page 2, Mor-ganthau's speech...
...Drys find themselves faced in both committees by hostile chairmen. They expect poor service in obtaining further legislation, either to make our ships legally dry on the high seas or to extend the three-mile limit to twelve miles. The hand of death has fallen heavily on the Dry cause...
...most arriving vessels had provided in advance for the contingency-that is, by sailing with small liquor stocks. From the State Department came the suggestion that foreign ships might be allowed to bring in liquor under seal-by treaty-if foreign governments would allow us in return to extend the three mile limit to twelve miles in searching vessels and seizing rum runners...