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...change the situation by giving support to the Court. The Court will not be busier, immediately. It might gain something in prestige, but that can easily be over-stated. America had a golden opportunity at the end of the War to take part in establishing this Court, but we threw it away. While we were talking and voting for "an association of nations," 48 other states were building this Court on solid foundations...
Other Fascist deputies then closed in, and according to despatches "dragged Maffi to the door, by the beard . . . flung him out . . . threw out three other Communists . . . hissed, spat and uttered catcalls...
...month ago a group of atheists in Manhattan applied for incorporation as a "wrecking company . . . to abolish the belief in God," etc. Justice Mitchell of the State Supreme Court denied the petition for incorporation as "highly improper" and threw it out of court. Last week the incorporators turned to another Justice of the State Supreme Court, Justice Ford, with the petition somewhat toned down. He approved it, and in the natural course of events the "American Association for the Advancement of Atheism" will become an established fact. Part of its program is to erect radio stations to broadcast lectures...
...spite of the gloom that these figures threw over the Crimson's chances today, close followers of the sport refused to count the battle already lost. The Cambridge offense has shown increasing signs of power and, strengthened by the confidence gained in the uphill struggle against the Bulldog, the Crimson booters may upset the Pennsylvania invaders plans...
...Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 3½% to 4%-a step occasioned by purely local conditions. Speculators in stocks, dealing in a market which had grown top-heavy of its own accord, evidently feared a similar rise in the rate of the New York Reserve Bank and threw overboard their motor shares in haste...