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...authority to interfere, hope that Greece will not make the mistake of recalling a man who was a pro-Hohenzollern during the war. It would undo much of the work accomplished by Venizelos--and no one did more to prosper Hellenic aspirations. It would complicate exceedingly the near-Eastern problem in which all Europe is interested. It would repudiate Greece as one of the Allies. It is to be hoped that the Greeks will take the note from Great Britain, France and Italy in the right spirit...
...Marquls de Norlolis in the hope of securing a high social position through the marriage of his niece to a wealthy Paris noble. Inasmuch as this niece, Genevieve, wishes to marry a young man, Callieres, who lacks the necessary social prestige, Fanny Lear finds that she has a difficult problem to solve before she can gain...
...building operations in New York is that the public rushes along blinded to the ultimate purpose of the whole affair. Conviction of gratters is not the only end to be sought; the real object of all the turmoil is to make possible a solution of the housing problem by building more houses. Everyone realizes that the rent relief laws were only temporary; indeed their constitutionality depended on the fact that an emergency existed which allowed for an extraordinary use of the State's police powers...
...City Club, which includes many prominent men of New York, has gently reminded the public that the housing problem still exists, and that conviction of grafters will not of itself produce homes. It has published a letter to the Board of Aldermen asking for the immediate passage of an ordinance backing up a plan made possible by law, exempting taxation on new buildings to the extent of $10,000 per family. This would aid chiefly the construction of moderately priced homes, though all new houses would profit somewhat. This may or may not be the best solution, but there...
...standpatter"--must be heard and judged before the mind can be made up with absolute fairness. Narrow-mindedness on any question should play no part in a university, if "intellectual culture" is to be attained. The Liberal Club, in thus offering to the students the side of the radical problem of which they have heard the least, is doing them a real service...