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...executive order, the President decreed the abolition of 28 local land offices...
Premier Herriot's battle with the Catholic Church has brought a hornet's nest about his ears, and may make his position as Premier even more precarious. The strike of school children in Alsace-Lorraino was merely a local skirmish in the nation-wide dissention, but it was the spark which set off the fiery Chamber of Deputies into fist-fight over Herriot's policy. Both sides have lined up for a fight to the finish on the question of what position the Church shall assume in French education...
That Major Moore's new passing game for the football aspirants has caused more than local attention among newspaper men, is evidenced by the fact that eight photographers with moving picture machines were present at Soldiers Field for the daily practice yesterday. On account of the soft ground practice was suspended for all the squad except those who consented to entertain the camera...
...Monday morning Laundry Bag Sweepstakes was won this week by Sing Sang Sung, formerly of East Somerville. The local boy managed to abscond with all the laundry bags in Randolph, thus setting a new interdormitory record. On the fifth landing he gained a certain victory by throwing the remaining bags out of the window to a team-mate below. These weekly competitions of the laundries are limited to no sect or nationality, and are run on a pure sporting basis. By tacit agreement the laundry bags are the lawful prize of the first comer. When the scramble through the entries...
...Until after breakfast last Tuesday morning, just two Senators had eve herd his name; yet before dinner, a majority of that body, had officially pronounced him qualified to occupy this powerful position in the Cabinet. A study of his record would have revealed three significant attainments. He has some local reputation as a corporation and criminal lawyer; he is one of the reactionary "bosses" of his state; and his acquaintance with "Colonel" John Coolidge dates from boyhood. Interesting attainments these are, but hardly adequate preparation for the legal representative of the American people...