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...Reconsidered and rejected (40-to-33) the nomination of George Otis Smith to be Chairman of the Federal Power Commission; ordered special counsel to start a quo warranto court action to test Chairman Smith's tenure of office over the Senate's objection...
...reason for disallowing free speech in an area such as Boston Common. Furthermore, the police were grossly unfair in their treatment of the three private and orderly citizens, two of whom were arrested after Hessian methods of coercion, failed to cow them. This should be made a test case. Law will have to be liberal to the extent of recognizing the difference between a sincere determination to preserve freedom and a volent misuse of it. The prominent citizens involved should see their convictions of right realized. All praise to them...
...Minister Steeg a majority of ten and then booted him out, suddenly softened last week toward the new Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Laval, a man no bigger than either of his predecessors. To Prime Minister Laval the Chamber gave a handsome working majority of 54 on his first test vote, a vote that seemed to promise continuation of the Laval cabinet perhaps until after the presidential elections...
...Columbia students appear not to have outgrown the school-boy complex of considering their teachers the authors of all evil. They apparently feel that the successful student is the one who can put one over on the professor. Accordingly, the Spectator, undergraduate daily, has welcomed the news that the test drawn up by Thomas Beer and published in the last issue of Scribners' has proved a sticker to several "supposedly" learned members of the faculty. It states with glee that the highest mark received by any of these men was 55 and that one of the students was able...
...would be absurd to hold up this failure as proof of disability in the faculty. The test was general and was in this case given to men who have spent their lives specializing in some particular subject, the study of which has naturally made it impossible for them to obtain a more than average general-knowledge. The mere fact that a college student was capable of equaling many of the professors proves little or nothing. It is true that some of the instructors laid themselves open to attack in trying to evade answering the test, but this is only...