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...society has not evolved sufficiently to have reached that ideal state when people support views entirely with unselfish motives--like the mechanical society which the ants have developed--but I maintain that the views backed by the Crusaders are fully as unselfish and a great deal more constructive than those of the so-called Drys, who support a measure which time has proved to be a failure...
...late great Nicholas Longworth held for many a happy year. Speaker Longworth used to carry it effort lessly by 20,000 Republican votes. Last year, hard pressed by an aggressive young Democrat, he humped himself energetically, squeaked through with only 3,500 votes to spare. To succeed him and maintain the honor of "the Speaker's district'' Cincinnati Republicans nominated John Baker Hollister. Like Speaker Longworth, Nominee Hollister is a shining socialite of good old family, a Harvardman, a cultured and urbane gentleman. His law partners are the sons of President Taft, his home is in the Indian Hill section...
...reports of transfer of Red soldiers to the Manchurian border or to anywhere in Siberia are nonsense," said Klim. "Not a soldier, not a gun has been shifted to that region. Our future policy toward Japan will depend entirely upon the sincerity of Japan's desire to maintain neighborly relations with...
...serves to raise the question of just how much fealty the College can justifiably require from an individual outside Hanover walls. To what extent is the individual obligated? To what extremes may the College proceed to maintain a normal tone of decency among these undergraduates who, for the moment, are not clustered under the very flagstaff of the College's banner...
...Yale debaters, scorning such sophistry as this, said simply but pregnantly: "Yale has its traditions to maintain...