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President Coolidge proclaimed the treaty in force forthwith. This particular treaty was negotiated as a sort of "test case" to determine the form of similar treaties to be made with other nations...
...motion pictures by radio within a building. The A. T. & T. engineers say, however, that the possibility of transmitting action pictures of ball games, riots, prizefights, parades, etc., directly is almost negligible. Fifteen photographs in all were transmitted from Cleveland to New York on the first day of the test - all within two hours. The actual time of transmission for a 5x7 picture was only 4½ minutes. There were several portraits, including a group of three men in the Cleveland office. This picture was taken by flashlight (owing to a cloudy day) at 3:59 p. m. The film...
Riding on a liner was certainly an indiscretion on the part of John Kearsley Mitchell. The ship news reporter was a trial which he brought on himself by so doing. But incidentally he applied an interesting test to several Manhattan newspapers. He showed how far they were prepared to go in resurrecting a dead and largely unmerited notoriety which he had acquired some months earlier...
...legislation owes its impetus and success at this time, to the desire of an able, if unscrupulous, opposition to discomfit the President by forcing his hand. Their, act, after succeeding in only the latter point, is rapidly turning itself into a boomerang. Mr. Coolidge has met a decisive test in a crucial political year. He has proved beyond doubt his courage, sincerity, and common sense. With Andrew Mellon; his stand is based on fact and national expediency, not on a lack of economic knowledge and an unhealthy desire merely to oppose. Intelligent and honest minded Americans in all political parties...
...regrets, of course, that the niggardliness of the Freshmen prevents a more pretentious festivity for the deserving Seniors. After passing through the scathing ordeal of Divisionals, the brain twisting test of Class Day applications and the unequalled humiliation of begging coins from Freshmen, the Seniors unquestionably need recreation. Some, no doubt, have sought rest and peace individually. But tonight's Celebration will include them all. It may be looked upon as a last gathering of forces before the dreaded and dreadful days of June...