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...newly formed club will have two major purposes. One object is to cut down the increased laundry bills of those students who are now wearing white shirts. The other is to begin an active campaign against the Ku Klux Klan. It is expected that the club will announce a definite platform, stating their policies in regard to these matters after the meeting today...
...last Congress, Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa held the post. He would like to have it again. The LaFollette group do not object; they rather urge it. " But," they say, " when Mr. Cummins has these new duties he must give up the Chairmanship of the Interstate Commerce Committee." " But," reply the regular Republicans, " if Mr. Cummins leaves the Committee, Senator La Toilette, by seniority rule, will become Chairman of it?he would be able to play with the railways just as he and the other 'radicals' desire...
...Chicago, J. A. H. Hopkins of Manhattan, who styles himself " Chairman of the Committee of 48," held a conference of a party without a name. A convention was called to meet in St. Paul on May 30, 1924, for all those who object to " special privilege "-the question of a name to be taken up later...
...Pope, though the Cortes (Spanish Parliament) tried to abrogate it. Since then relations between the Vatican and the State have not been too friendly. The new order in Spain now makes it possible for a lasting agreement to be made between the State and Church, which is allegedly the object of King Alfonso...
Thereupon the newspapermen notified Mr. Coolidge that if such was the case the burden of policing press conferences and protecting the President's confidences could no longer rest on them but must fall on Mr. Slemp. Their object in restricting the classes of persons admitted to press conferences has been, not to exclude others than newspapermen from interviews with the President, but to insure that only bona-fide journalists could be present at conferences when the President chose to speak purely for the enlightenment of correspondents and not for those who might take advantage of his words in furthering...