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...President issued the traditional Thanksgiving Day proclamation, in spite of a telegram from the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism urging him to refrain. Said...
...Earl sat down and the audience rose to sing an old Scotch song: "Will Ye No' Come Back Again?" The first verse rose clear and lilting, but at the refrain Lord Oxford and Asquith was seen to be in tears. Soon he was weeping heavily. He managed to say brokenly: "I thank you . . . I thank you from the bottom of my heart...
...gentlemen of the press together last week, informed them that he had reason to be vexed. First, he emphatically denied rumors which said that the U. S. would make tariff concessions to Europe in order to be admitted to the World Court. Then, he urged all news papers to refrain from the dissemination of rumors and confine themselves to . facts in relating foreign news. Said The New York World: "Mr. Coolidge ... in the talk of the street, had his nerve with him." More tranquil, the Republican New York Evening Post remarked: "The place for the newspaper to try to influence...
...only one college* to which the song rightly belongs, but no haphazard gathering of U. S. college songsters, however diverse their allegiances, would be unable to render it, "swipes" and all, with never a look at one another, heads tilted back and eyes shut tight for the roaring refrain. Thus, when the Lord Jeffrey Inn was opened with ceremony last week at Amherst, Mass., college men everywhere pricked up their ears, hearing fond echoes in the very name. The inn, of an old English design, facing the village green, was not a part of the Amherst college plant, but Amherst...
...While we have clearly declared our wish to assist in promoting justice among nations, we have just as clearly declared our intention to refrain from interfering in the political affairs of others by refusing to adhere to the League of Nations...