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...been misinformed by the Department of Justice (Daugherty regime) at the time when he gave executive clemency to a Chicago saloon keeper sentenced to a year in jail and $1,000 fine in connection with an alleged infraction of the prohibition laws. The President had been given to understand that the fine had been paid although the sentence had not been served. The President's statement was given out following the action of a Chicago judge who ruled that the man was sentenced for contempt and that, therefore, the President did not have the power to pardon. Attorney General...
...Romero, 196 pound pugilistic champ of Chile, fell before the bruising, battering attack of Floyd Johnson, 199 pound lowan. Romero, his face a bloody smear, fell in the seventh round, .lay prone while the timer tailed off: ten seconds. Whether he was really "out" or whether he could not understand the Anglo-Saxon numerals as shouted by the referee are questions which were afterwards debated...
...word "pacifist" means today when there is no war in sight. Even in time of war there seem to be some fine distinctions to be observed ir, making such a definition. Mr. Norman Thomas's "The Conscientious Objector in America" is a book that is helping intelligent people to understand the type of mind that refuses to accept war as a necessity. It is rather strikingly dedicated to "The Brave, who went for Conscience's Sake to Trench or to Prison...
...Columbia University" and by "the flippant comments of unthinking critics," journeyed to Paris and to the gate of "the restful garden in which goldfish swim in transparent waters under rose bushes and leafy trees." He found Dr. Voronoff to be "tall, slender, dark, magnetic." Said the Doctor: "You should understand that every physician attends school for many years. His professors teach him that such and such things are facts. When another physician claims to have discovered new facts that seem to contradict or go beyond those previously known and taught, it is not easy for them to accommodate themselves...
...guests at my table were Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, Miss Aladeleine Liebert, daughter of Gaston Liebert (French Minister in New York)." Patrick Cardinal Hayes: "My first unecclesiastical speech since returning to my archdiocese was delivered to 4,000 postal employes. To them I said: 'I cannot understand why you have not received the salary increase long ago. You should have used the same methods on the sages in Washington as you used on me when you persuaded me to come here - namely, force...