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...right when the magazine goes before thousands of boys and girls, young men and women of our schools. It would, no doubt, do for older people but for young people it is a different matter. We have more than a thousand young folks in our school and a large percent of them read TIME. We are doing all we possibly can to overcome these evil influences and to have a paper or magazine in our library that advocates just what we are working against is something we do not plan to uphold...
When asked how the decision would affect the campaign Professor W. Z. Ripley has been waging for better conditions of corporate control, Professor Cunningham said, "This decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission is in direct accord with Professor Ripley's contentions. It is obvious that if only ten percent of a large issue of stock carries voting rights, a group of small minority holders can gain control of the whole thing, since all they need is 51 percent of ten percent. It was against this feature of the merger, as much as any other that the unfavorable decision was aimed...
...rarely practiced,--that there are good trusts as well as bad ones. The Commission has expressed its approval of the aim of the Van Sweringon merger, its objections have been of a purely economic nature. It has condemned the provisions that allow the Van Sweringon brothers to control 51 percent of the voting power while owning but 32 percent of the outstanding stock...
...appointed ambassador to Spain, has agreed to entertain the group at Madrid. A special performance of the opera at Paris, athletic meets with Japanese colleges and debates are only a few of the diversions planned. In practically every country, contact will be made with the native students. Approximately 45 percent of the time will be spent ashore...
Thus the argument of tradition can he applied to both sides of the case with facility, for one can scarcely imagine a populist disowning the Constitution. The disturbing thesis that the 51 percent have no right to rule therefore appears still unconfuted save by the call to arms. The threat of physical force or mental boycott is the logic which better than any other justifies the will of the majority...