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Since Chiang captured Shanghai the breach between himself and the Nationalist politicians at Hankow has grown so wide that it is even rumored that the Nationalist Central Executive Committee has dismissed Chiang as Generalissimo, through this he has denied...
...past too much land has been used in growing cotton. Next year, according to plans, there will be an increase of 15 per cent in the sweet potato crop, and a production of 6 per cent decrease in the tobacco crop. However, the fine wrapper tobacco grown in the Connecticut Valley will be produced in as great quantity as ever...
...held early this week was on the war debts and their possible cancelation. 25 members reported and it was announced that the total enrollment of the club had risen to well over 40 men. Among these are numbered practically all of the Freshman debating team, and the club has grown to such proportions that the team realized that union with it was its only possible step. A committee of four; F. P. Bowden Jr., F. S. Jennison, C. T. Wheeler, and A. M. Silverblatt, will frame a question for the next meeting's debate...
...outskirts of sooty Birmingham is ivy-clad Drayton Manor, whereon a halo of fame has grown for more than a century. Drayton Manor, as all good Britishers know, was the home of Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), than whom there was no more revered statesman in the 19th Century. His ancestors, sprung from Yorkshire yeoman stock, potent in a rising industrial era, Tory to the core, saw in him the future leader of the Tories. A scholar and a football player, he entered Parliament. A smart young man, he established the Irish constabulary and the London police.* But some...
Last week the words of a revolutionary statesman rose out of century-old oblivion, cheered Wet leaders. For in the pages of a letter, grown yellow and faded, Gouverneur Morris penned vigorous words 123 years ago that now threaten the legality of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (commonly known as the Liquor Prohibition Amendment). Aristocrat, rebel, descendant of sturdy Roundheads and men of law, Gouverneur Morris led the fight for the Declaration of Independence in his native state New York, helped draft the U. S. Constitution. His contribution to the Constitution is disputed. However, in 1804, Morris wrote...