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This ta-ra-boom vibrated over Illinois, over Indiana, over Ohio, and set quivering the editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer, a newspaper which once had individuality and still has prestige. Its editors threw off their eyeshades; reached for their fifes, ever ready among the lead pencils on their desks; and shrilled in tune with the Tribune: "This institution [University of Wisconsin], like many others, is said to be honeycombed with radical doctrinaires, internationalists and aliens. The boys have been led to believe that they should refuse to submit to military training and discipline. Why cannot all such academic proponents...
GEORG TCHITCHERIN (cheat-cher-'een), 55, is Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Onetime aristocrat and diplomat, he threw up his appointment in Berlin in 1905, associated himself with the Socialist movement, was banished from Germany in 1908, since when he has remained an ardent Bolshevist. During the War he was imprisoned in England whence he was expelled in 1917. returning to Russia in January, 1918. As Foreign Commissioner he has been noted for his suave touch and clever diplomacy in the conduct of the foreign affairs...
Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, attended and argued for a form of confessional in Protestant churches as a means of relief. Said he: "The confessional, which Protestantism threw out the door, is coming back through the window, in utterly new forms, to be sure, with new methods and with an entirely new intellectual explanation appropriate to the Protestant churches, but motivated by a real determination to help meet the inward problems of individuals. Clergymen are giving different names to this form of activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems...
...toward Long Island where he had pledged his presence at a charity air circus. As he slid neatly to earth, the frantic crowd broke police lines, swooped toward his plane. With the mob spirit hurling those in front straight to death in the still whirling propeller blades, Col. Lindbergh threw wide the throttle; wheeled the roaring plane just in time; flew away a lifesaver; lighted on an adjoining field...
...Indianizing" was a method of interfering used by the Carlisic Indian College teams, and Hardwick became exceptionally proficient in its practice. When a player "Indianized" a runner, he threw his body across the knees of his opponent in such a way as to take him completely out of action...