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...quite possible that a liberal justice would vote to give California Convict Tom Mooney a hearing (as the Supreme Court did last fortnight) or to uphold a state mortgage moratorium law and then balk at the idea of pensioning all aged railroad employes, fixing the price of ice in San Antonio or the price of a hair cut in Jersey City or enforcing collective bargaining in a steel plant-all on the legal theory that these things help to regulate and maintain the free flow of interstate commerce...
After a week of suspense, the Oxford Union Society has replied through the National Broadcasting Company to the Debating Council on the subject of the radio debate to be held on December 8. Oxford cannot accept the proposal for a split-team debate on news censorship, but wants to uphold the affirmative of the resolution for an Angle-American alliance, first proposed by Harvard, which wanted the affirmative as well...
...uphold the negative of the alliance, two will be chosen out of the following three: Frederick DeW. Belman '35, Powers McLean '35, and Gilman Sullivan '36. Edward M. Rowe '27. Director of Debating, will make the decisions before five o'clock today...
Columbia will meet Harvard on December 10 at Meriden, Connecticut, where about a thousand gathered last year to hear Harvard and Princeton debate. Harvard will uphold the negative of the proposal "Resolved; That the private manufacture of munitions be abolished." Both teams may agree that international traffic in armaments should be outlawed. The first four speeches will be of fifteen minutes duration, while the two rebuttals will last six minutes...
...First Amendment to our Constitution provides: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom . . of the press." Popular opinion in both nations is overwhelmingly in favor of the negative on the censorship resolution. It is significant that this is the side of the question each team wishes to uphold...