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...would brook no opposition. He insisted that the Senate should sign the Versailles Treaty, creating the League of Nations, on the dotted line. He went to the country confident that he would win an overwhelming victory. I doubt if there has ever been a more striking example of mistaken judgment or a more complete reversal of political fortune in the history of this government." But was there a filibuster? Senator Borah leading the Court opposition at one time exclaimed: "I am not going to engage in a filibuster. I've been 18 years in this body and I have...
...rely upon early diagnosis and prompt surgical treatment as at present for the most effective means of curing early cancer. Radium and X-ray still remain useful forms of treatment where surgery is not available, and colloidal lead seems to promise hope to others. But at present no final judgment can be rendered concerning its efficacy, nor does it seem likely that in the near future will any great improvement in its use be discovered. Nevertheless it is clearly the most important advance in the treatment of cancer which has been made since the advent of radium and Xray...
...League, as it stands, consists of sovereign powers. None of these have agreed to cede the central unit the authority it must have ti sit in judgment over their disputes. All, without exception, wish to conserve their respective armaments, they wish to submit questions of "grave significance" arising between small powers, but they do not think that the combined efforts of France and Spain to crush the Riffians, who are fighting for their liberties, deserve the attention of the League. They say Morocco is not a member of the League. Well, what of France? Is she not a member...
Besides his work as editor of the different magazines. Dr. More has also written several book, among them a life of Benjamin Franklin, and a history of the religion of Plato. He has also translated many Greek works, notably "Prome these Bound" and the "Judgment of Socrates...
...folk at sundown, beating their suspects into unconsciousness before the bar of justice. This is not the ordeal, however. The ordeal is to recover consciousness. And nothing could be more systematically fitted to the American critic's haphazard dicta than the impartially unjust manner in which the natives pronounce judgment. He who comes to his senses during the night is innocent; he who awakes at dawn is guilty...