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...submit that each fisherman ought to catch at least 50 fish during the season. I should like more than that myself, but that ought to be demanded as a minimum . . . provided it includes one big one for purposes of indelible memory, conversation and historic record...
...President Coolidge" (TIME, April 18). Actually, with the President behind him, and with Congress not in session, Mr. Stimson had wielded power of life and death. By persuasion and threats of force* he had compelled the embattled Conservative and Liberal Nicaraguan armies to lay down their arms and submit to U. S. control of Nicaragua until 1928, when the U. S. guarantees to supervise an impartial election...
...this latest measure. What is the excuse for it? Let those who want to undergo this peculiar form of treatment do so; I, for one, though I am not a Christian Scientist nor anything else which some medical gentlemen might like to accuse me of, do not care to submit to it--especially since I know of one person who received by being vaccinated one of the most loathsome of diseases--a disease to which both men and cattle are subject, and which I need not name; of another who suffered an attack of something very much like smallpox...
...reserves of foreign currency which have been accumulated by the Treasury place us in a position to meet our foreign liabilities so that we will not have to accept blindly for a long period, engagements which we would not be sure ; about being able to keep, or to submit to any constraint from abroad...
...permission of the Interstate Commerce Commission to become a director of the Wheeling & Lake Erie R.R., in which his company recently bought a one-sixth interest, and of four W.&L.E. subsidiaries. Under the law, which aims to prevent the nefarious interlocking of railroad directorates, he was required to submit to the I.C.C. the names of railroads in which he already is a director. There were 102 railroads in his list. So when the I.C.C. grants his latest request, Mr. Crowley, nicknamed "Pull 80 Cars" for his initials and industry, will have the right to pull wires on the boards...