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...elections for the next Bail Eireann held in Ireland were said to be the most un-Irish in history. With few exceptions, there was no violence, no laughter on Election Day; the Emerald Isle was plunged into a strange and incomprehensible peace, which seems to have staggered the Irish themselves. It was a "model election...
Valparaiso University is 50 years old. It was founded in 1873 by two young teachers, H. P. Brown and 0. P. Kinsey. Until 1920 it ran an un- eventful course, but in that year, on the crest of post-War prosperity, its enrollment climbed to 4,000, it sent a football team to the Harvard Stadium and it introduced fraternities. Then hard times hit the Indiana farmer, fraternity rows broke out in the University, and the enrollment fell in one year to 1,260. In 1923 the University was still in difficulties and the Klan bought...
...bituminous coal mines. The operators do not like it because they are obliged to collect funds which may be later used against them. The union miners demand it because it is a sure way of collecting dues. The operators object to it, asserting that it is illegal, un-American and that in effect it forces a closed shop, giving the United Mine Workers a labor monopoly. The miners' officials demand it, declaring that it is not illegal and gives them the only sure hold over their members in enforcing the miners' contract with the mine operators. The miners further assert...
That was about a year ago. Mr. Hirshfield has now finished his labors and made his report. He finds that eight of the history textbooks used in New York public schools are un-American and pro-British, and " fit only to be fed to the furnace." He further finds that the distortion of fact in these books is not accidental. It is due to the operation of a malign influence. It is the " international money power." Since the fact is not divulged by any of the texts, it is to be presumed that Mr. Hirshfield though of it himself...
...HOUSE OP THE ENEMY?Ca-mille Mallarmé?McBride ($2.00). Interesting but by no means extraordinary novel of Spanish life in town and country, the heroine, Candida, begins as a carefree goatherd on the plains of La Mancha and ends as a respectable but un-happy señora sunk in the stultifying pettiness of a small Spanish town...