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Results, Resolutions showed the tenor of Progressive thought. Among the re-forms the conference called for were: 1) abolition of the electoral college and the popular election of the President (without which no Third Party can make any effective headway); 2) tariff revision to in-clude the transfer of flexible authority from the White House to the Capitol; 3) Unemployment insurance; 4) co-ordinate State and Federal job agencies (the vetoed Wagner bill); 5) repeal of the War- time espionage act; 6) a law against Federal wiretapping; 7) admission of Cabinet members to Congressional debates; 8) removal of postal censorship...
...possible. But there is also a third group of those who mature slowly, but when they once finish preparatory school are perfectly ready for college. These would be deprived of a college education if the proposed restriction went into effect. There is also the question of those who transfer from high school to preparatory school. A year is inevitably lost in the process, making the preparation at least five years in length. To bar them from college would work hardships on those who cannot afford four years at preparatory school, and yet wish to amplify their high school training...
...Scripps-Howard contract and the effort of the Worlds' employes. This brought from Gustavus A. Rogers, attorney for the employes, the charge that Publisher Block was really representing William Randolph Hearst, and that his precipitate withdrawal was due to connivance with Publisher Howard, that the latter would transfer to Hearst the morning and Sunday Worlds, with their A. P. franchise. Said Publisher Howard: "His statement is the silliest imaginable. . . . It's a damned...
...students were moved into other Freshman dormitories, and into Claverly, Apley, and Straus Halls. An effort was made to insure that each man had accommodations equal to those in Standish, and in most eases even larger rooms were found. The transfer to new rooms was made at the expense of the University...
...Mail debts. Frightened investors began selling the common, which had climbed above £7 last year for ten shillings a share. Down went the price to one shilling. Then an unprecedented thing for so great a company occurred: a large block changed hands at zero. The owner paid the transfer tax, making the sale actually below zero. By the close of the day the common was back at five shillings. But the once gilt-edge 6½% preferred which had been at 60 shillings in the morning did not rally, closed the day at the ignoble price...