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...language in telegraphic and radio-telegraphic relations, as a practical auxiliary language of international communications side by side with the national languages used, and with this in view calls it to the attention of the organization for communication and transit" (i.e., the International Postal Union). This was no snap judgment, but followed long consideration and debate. The vote was noteworthy, affirmative 14, negative 9. In favor were garia, Chekoslovakia, China, Finnland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Holland, Norway. New Zealand, and Rumania. A recommendation that all nations of the League put Esperanto into their school systems Albania. Bulgaria and Chekoslovakia have already...
...This word was, however, soon succeeded by a not ungleeful curiosity. A closer inspection of the published lists, however, raised new questions rather than settled old ones. Men known to be very wealthy appeared in the relatively small returns, while unknown names stood opposite large assessments. Accordingly, the judgment of the financial centre on the whole episode was in the main that the returns published had borne out what it had claimed right along were gross discriminations and irregularities in the income-tax law itself. The individuals shrewd enough to have put their fortune into tax-exempt securities...
...strike of 1922. The accused contended that the question of fact in the contempt charge must be tried by a jury, and appealed through the circuit course to the Supreme Court. The judges of the lower courts believed that they were given sole jurisdiction over such cases, but their judgment has been conclusively set aside. Henceforth, picketing, threatening and similar strike procedure, when carried on in defiance of an in junction, will be checked only by a jury trial, to establish beyond reasonable doubt the violation of the decree. Trial by jury is extended from trial of cases under indictment...
...book of J. S. Murphy '25. Also the high lights of several other manuscripts will be incorporated, as far as is possible without destroying by abridgement; and addition the dramatic unities of the play. The play will be gone over thoroughly this evening by the Graduate Committee, when final judgment will be passed on what will be included and what omitted. A. H. Stafford '26 will attend the meeting to give his suggestions and additions to the material already turned...
...good sport. I admit, to tear to pieces in Shavian wit, a play of a book or a magazine. But I doubt (this is no more than a snap judgment whose accuracy has no bearing on my argument) if even the bombastic Mr. Shaw, after ridiculing a play calls its author an idle dillettante, without first making very sure of his ground...