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Loyal Harvard men will perhaps be moved by the accusation that the University in transferring other people's hot air in its pipes would be acting ultra vires. That would surely not be cricket; Lowell House would protest if others...
...their ranch they made their stand, defied police, troops and airplanes to come and get them. As a final gesture the besiegers set fire to the wood. When the green trees would not burn, they shrugged their shoulders and went back to La Paz. Argentina made a formal protest to Uruguay that the revolt was hatched on Uruguayan soil. When Dr. Adolfo Guemes and Dr. Jose Luis Cantillo, Radical Party politicians, reached Buenos Aires from Montevideo they were promptly arrested, soon released. Onetime President Hipolito Irigoyen, about whom all the rumpus centred, was coughing with bronchitis on Martin Garcia Island...
...operator of a steel mill or a dairy or a garage can cut his employes' wages at will. The employes may protest, strike, picket his plant, but nothing more. Not so with railroad operators. First step required by the Railroad Labor Act for altering the wage scale on a railroad is a 30-day notice of intention to the unions. Arbitration and mediation go step by step up to the Federal Board of Mediation. If no agreement has been reached at this stage, the President of the U. S. appoints a committee by whose ruling the contesting parties are expected...
...gavels, cigaret cases, note cases and a stuffed baby alligator. "To give you an example of the hustle at Philadelphia, I was attending a banquet there when a man came up to me and said, 'you are broadcasting tonight. Just a moment. . . .' Before there was time to protest he had announced me, pushed the microphone into my hand and there was I, expected to make a speech on the spur of the moment which would be heard by thousands of listeners. ... I was received at the White House by President Hoover. The British Ambassador was with...
...Fascist oath, by which Italian professors are compelled to swear loyalty to the existing regime and all its works, is a pertinent instance of that evil. The action of the Harvard professors who have requested the League of Nations to intervene in the case, is a well-timed protest against an act of tyranny...