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...they go even further and demand that foreign nations give up the Capitulations. These are the courts run by the consulates for foreigners living in Turkey. The Turks want these done away with and foreigners tried wholly in Turkish courts and under Turkish law. The Koran is the sole Turkish law authority, and anything that is not accounted for in it is not a case for courts. A pistol murder, for example, cannot come up in court because Allah, when he dictated the Koran, forgot to speak of pistols. In addition, a Moslem can kill, assault, rob, and injure...
...company. He may be famous in Cambridge, or in Boston, and later write articles of his own on "the good old days". Or he may find his interest and his pleasure in books and the well known background, as was "necessary" in the past. Whichever is his choice the sole difference is that now it can be carried farther...
Colonel Gaston represents the same interests as Senator Lodge, he agrees with Lodge on the League of Nations, the Bonus, Prohibition, on every vital question of the day. The sole difference is that he is a Democrat and Lodge is a Republican. The result of this unanimity is a complete falling-off of interest, apparently by both voters and candidates. A campaign that promised to be epochal has turned out a disappointing fizzle...
...previously announced, the audience will be the sole judge of the comparative merits of the two sides, in deference to the parliamentary system in use by the Oxonians. Ballots will be provided with each program as the audience enters the hall, and will be collected at the conclusion of the debate, and counted in the presence of the audience, so that the decision can be announced from the stage within a few minutes after the final speech. Dean Greenough and Mr. A. H. Marlow, Vice-Consul of Great Britain, have been invited and have agreed to act as official tellers...
...that by your side were placed, as your instructors and guides, several high grade accountants--men of national reputation--their sole duty being to train and equip...