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...wish to enter a protest against your use of dashes in your Letters columns when you delete profanity. I approve the deletions, but I see no good reason why you should pique the curiosity of your occasionally profane readers by having all dashes of equal length...
...spring of the year at Harvard it has almost become a tradition for the supporters of minor sports to object that spring football takes too many men from the regular athletics of that season. They protest that if this practice of playing football for the three most crucial weeks in the final college semester were abolished, it would be possible for Harvard to assume a role of greater importance in such sports as lacrosse. Ignoring the fact that crew is the most popular spring athletic, activity, the supporters of this belief hold that the men who would be released...
...first Battle of the Marne, General Sarrail recaptured Verdun and the Meuse heights. A radical-socialist, his military career was much affected by political disfavor. In Syria (1925), dynamic as ever, he suddenly shelled rebellious sections of Damascus, reputedly killing 500 persons, including women and children, arousing worldwide protest. At his deathbed was famed Lieutenant Colonel Albert Dreyfus, victimized hero of "the Dreyfus case...
...true that the ship in question may have been violating the laws of the United States, but the offense did not warrant its being sunk beyond the twelve mile limit. Such an action offers the British government excellent grounds for protest and leaves this country without a valid excuse. The enthusiasm of the coast guard in executing their duties might be satisfactory to the W. C. T. U., but their breach of international etiquette certainly will not find favor in diplomatic circles...
...only protest against the Hoover oil policy came, ironically enough, from Montana's Senator Walsh, the dynamite who blew the oil scandals above ground. Some of his criticisms were: 1) the "wildcatter" whose enterprise developed the oil industry will be penalized; 2) the State of Montana would be "impoverished" by the loss of its one-third share of royalty oil revenue by the withdrawal of 20,000,000 acres of government land in that State alone from further exploitation. Senator Walsh beheld the "big interests" profiting by the Hoover order, and the small concerns operating on U.S. leases squeezed...