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...number of Laborites in the House of Lords is now 14, as against approximately 500 Conservatives and 90 Liberals. It had been rumored that Scot MacDonald would "advise" (i.e. instruct) the King to create 100 Labor peers, but the public excitement sure to follow such a perfectly justifiable move was deemed not worth risking until Labor has an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons...
...must hasten Justice and make it sure, even against the wishes or the interests of his client. He must control the exposition of facts related to him by the client and gather the elements of proof into an honored sequence, so that when the trial begins it can move speedily to a decision. There must be no emotional pleading, no such disgrace to Justice as what the American's call 'sob stuff...
...Mackaye says there is an ether. But it is not static like Professor Miller's ether. The MacKaye ether is composed of helter-skeltering radiations. Like light his radiations move in all directions, and with the same velocity (circa 186,000 mi. per sec.). They have a superfrequency and hence a superpenetration. As light goes through glass and X-rays through bodies, his radiations go through everything. They are never at rest. Modifications of them- photons, protons, electrons and possibly other quivering mites of sub-matter not yet recognized-are only slightly less ubiquitous...
...restraining Handley Page "henceforth and forever" from importing any aviation products to the U. S., because the English company was using certain Curtiss devices. In England Curtiss had no redress. But they could keep Handley Page out of the U. S. The revival of their injunction was a Curtiss move to prove that Handley Page was prosecuting the $300,000 lawsuit without "clean hands." Probable outcome: an exchange of patents...
...person can ideally be a good citizen unless he is equipped by nature and by training to make a living, and the more adequate that is, the better in many ways for his neighbors as well as for himself and his family. The ship of state can not move steadily or comfortably forward with a cargo of inactive and non-contributory passengers...