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Lynching comes in most cases from a mob disillusioned with the methods of normal jurisprudence. Because of the insoluble race problem, it is a particularly flagrant evil in the Southern states. Not until the people of the sub-Mason and Dixon area are sufficiently impressed with the tradition of jurisprudence to take their cases to the court-house instead of to the nearest tree will the scandal come to an end. In the meantime, although causing national embarrassment, Iyaho law is a completely local problem, and the task of checking mob hysters and granting an impartial trial to its citizens...
...sinkhole. According to Kreuger's handmade balance sheets, Match was a $200,000,000 concern with world-wide properties. Discovering only $9,871 in cash, the receivers searched the wide world for other Match assets. It disputed the claims of Kreuger & Toll. It accused the German Government of "flagrant discrimination" between Swedish and U. S. creditors under the famed "Kreuger Loan," biggest single Match asset. And by last week Irving Trust had salvaged $8,000,000. For the benefit of Match creditors it recommended a "first dividend of approximately...
Some of the visitors at the Dartmouth Carnival last week-end have no doubt seen the Orozco murals in the university library, and it is only right that the flagrant attack on the academic tradition which they constitute should receive its merited censure. Since at Harvard there are problems enough to hold our attention, it is seldom that an obvious need occurs to take a college like Dartmouth to task. Yet they have committed a cardinal sin for an endowed American university. The indulgence of Dartmouth and of the public is asked if Harvard is used to illustrate by contrast...
...that the report that I had 100 responses from the Gazette advertising is an attempt to make it appear that red flannels still abound in Iowa. The title of the painting is to be The Bath-1880 not Farm Life. This further inaccuracy seems to be an even more flagrant attempt to wed Iowa to the red flannels and thus make the article more salable...
...State, War, and Navy Departments foresaw some of the evidence that has been produced: that U. S. arms makers had greased the palms of foreign officials who bought their arms; that the U. S. Government was inclined to wink at such bribery as long as it was not too flagrant; that War and Navy officials had encouraged and, in some cases. may even have assisted the sale of U. S.-made arms to foreign countries. The Government's purpose in so doing was plainly to keep the life blood of profit flowing through U. S. arms factories in peacetime...