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...Harvard 1. The subject which will be discussed is that of the entrance of the United States into the World Court as suggested by President Harding. At its previous meetings the Debating Union has considered the questions of the recognition of Russia by the United States the Jones Ship Subsidy bill, and the French policy in the Ruhr...
...institutions of higher learning in the United States, either as students or as instructors and to teachers in secondary schools. Members of the Students' Tours will sail from New York on June 30, 1923 on the S. S. Saxonia of the Cunard Line and will return on the same ship on August 24, due in New York on September 4. The Art Students' Tour offers an opportunity to visit the great galleries, churches, and palaces of Europe under the guidance of authoritative lecturers on art history and appreciation. The Students' Tour to France will have for its objective the gaining...
...Havana, Cuba, through a submarine cable from Key West; the use of loud-speaking apparatus in connection with the transcontinental line in simultaneous ceremonies at Arlington, Va., New York and San Francisco, on Armistice Day, 1921; and the linking up of wire and wireless transmission in speech from ship to shore and across the Atlantic. All of these developments are due wholly or in part to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Western Electric Company which carry on probably the most extensive research work of any industry in the world. These companies are now working on such developments...
Colonel Amery's statement is correct. But he did not point out that, although Great Britain has one new capital ship and the United States has three, only one of these (the Maryland] is in commission; that of America's eight 30,000-ton ships, all but one (again the Maryland) are outranged by Great Britain's five "Queen Elizabeth's" and five "Royal Sovereigns"; that America's superiority in personnel would be transferred to Great Britain if 20,000 marines were not added to our total; that it is possible for the British...
More than half of these vessels are said to be part of the international system of two rival New York syndicates. Both of these organizations ship their liquor directly from England and Scotland in tramp steamers to St. Pierre, Miquelon. Here it is transshipped to three-masted Gloucester fishing smacks, carrying 2,000 cases each, which make up the Block Island squadron...