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...days later, on the closing day of the session, Mr. La Follette called up his resolution. Senator James A. Reed proposed to amend it by enlarging the scope of the investigation to include candidates for Senator. The Senate agreed to the amendment. The resolution was put to the "ayes" and "nays" and was passed without a dissenting vote...
...main, it adheres to the more dramatic type of narrative. It is apparently an attempt to treat news articles by the standards of fiction. In a sense there is ample justification for this attitude. It is the newspaper man's business to vivify and dramatize news, within the scope of Truth. Several notable examples of this function include the Pulitzer Prize story of the eclipse of the sun and a story of photographing the nucleus of a helium atom...
According to the present plans the scope of the school will include the five basic subjects of the fundamental bases of international relations, the history of international relations, international law, diplomatic practice and procedure, and international organizations. A three-year period of graduate instruction has been suggested for the course, at least one year of which would be spent abroad in the study of racial and ethnological peculiarities, political and social undercurrents, and other factors that bear directly on the relations of nations with each other...
...content with overworking this time-worn device, the authors go on to pack their scenes with soul-tearing and ear-splitting melodrama which at times verges on farce. Indeed it seemed to us that this play should not have been chosen, especially for the limited scope of a stock company...
Before a case in which the United States is concerned can be submitted to the Court a special agreement must be concluded between the United States and the other parties in interest, defining clearly the matter ia dispute, the scope of the powers of the Court, and the periods for the several stages of procedure, and such special agreements on the part of the United States can only be made by the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof...