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...James R. Mann. His district in Chicago was and is mostly populated by Negroes. Occasionally Mr. Madden would introduce a bill, such as one prohibiting "Jim Crow" cars, to please his own constituents specially. But his main efforts were expended towards national legislation, such as raising the pay of postal clerks and letter carriers, and enlarging the Panama Canal. Last month he got up from a sick bed at President Coolidge's request, to fight for moderation of the "extortionate" Flood Control Bill...
...affiliation in these and similar emergencies it might well be highly desirable that an official undergraduate organ voice the authoratative opinion of the whole undergraduate body. For the effective fulfillment of this purpose one factor is essential; the ability to act quickly and decisively. Emergencies cannot be handled if postal cards must be sent out, a meeting held, lengthy discussion indulged in and a vote cast before definite action can be taken. To perform effectively its duties as representative of the undergraduate body the Student Council thus must develop a mode of procedure or of control which will enable...
...Postal ballots for the election of the 1929 Student Council are being sent out this morning to all members of the Sophomore and Junior Classes. Voting will not be conducted according to the preferential system, as was previously announced. Juniors will vote for seven men out of a list of 17, and Sophomores for three from a group of 12. The membership of the council will be rounded out to its full number of 15 with the appointment of three additional members from the Junior class and two from the Class of 1930 at the first meeting...
...applauded the House last week for passing, 220 to 0, a measure calculated to save them some $13,585,000 per annum in postage stamps. It was the long-awaited Griest bill, named for the Pennsylvanian chairman of the House Post Office Committee. It provided for a lowering of postal rates on second, third and fourth class matter. On the advertising sections of their magazines, for example, publishers would save from .25? to 2? per pound, according to zone, when they mail their publications out to subscribers. On postcards, which are used as much for placing orders as for "dropping...
...Italian nation virtually was at civil war. Railways, postal and telegraphic services . . . were hopelessly disorganized. Industry had been paralyzed for several years by revolutionary strikes. The government had lost all effective authority. Parliament was a feeble confusion of conflicting cliques...