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Before the House Ways & Means Committee last week passed an unusual parade of potent bankers and businessmen. They had hurried anxiously to Washington to protest against any premature cashing of the Soldier Bonus as a form of Depression relief (TIME, Feb. 9). Charles Edwin Mitchell, board chairman of great National City Bank of New York, declared that a $3,500,000,000 U. S. bond issue to pay off the adjusted service certificates would cause "hundreds and hundreds of bank failures" throughout the land. Arthur Reynolds, board chairman of great Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, likened bonus cashing...
...register a protest against the condition of the showers in the new gymnasium on the boxing-room and fencing room floor? There is hardly one shower in which a majority of the needle-points are in working condition. As a result the water comes through the few points that are clear with such force that it produces great discomfort and difficulty in getting a proper shower. Another point is that the mixer when turned so as to produce cold water, reduces the water pressure to a minimum...
After an unexplained period of laxity, the class officers have bestirred themselves to arrange for the annual elections. So little interest is shown in the choosing of officers that it seems to be almost casuistic to protest against the unparliamentary negligence which has ruled class elections for the past few years. Nevertheless, in the interests of existent principles, it seems reasonable that in form, at least, undergraduate self-government should preserve some small measure of regularity...
Precedent. As yet there is no clearly defined precedent covering incidents such as those of the I'm Alone and Josephine K. Should the Canadian Government protest Captain Cluett's killing, the next step would be to appoint a commissioner from each country to arbitrate. Justice Van (See col. 3) Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court and Justice Duff of the Canadian Supreme Court have yet to settle the I'm Alone case...
...Root gave the impression that he thought it highly unlikely the U. S. would ever have to exercise its withdrawal privilege because the World Court would always heed a U. S. protest. Said he: "It was the existence of this power of withdrawal that made the agreement possible...