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...calls them, Lord Reading was virtually a sovereign represented at London by the Secretary of State for India, a post now held by Lord Birkenhead (see p. 11). He was the first Jewish Viceroy, and at the time of his departure for India many doubted that a Jew could uphold Anglo-Saxon prestige among Moslems and Hindus. His success in conciliating Mahatma Gandhi, fomenter of Indian "resistance by non-cooperation," amply disproved the fears of anti-Semites. Last week Indians expressed pleasure at the elevation of Lord Reading to a place among Britain's two score Marquises...
...enable him as the executive arm of the Government to uphold the Constitution, specifically that short passage* of it known as the 18th Amendment, the President sent a message to the House demanding $3,000,000 in addition to the $21,000,000 which the House has already appropriated for prohibition enforcement during the coming year. This new money is for new activities under General Lincoln C. Andrews...
...University debating team left for its invasion of Princeton. The debate tonight is the last of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular series, and it also marks the close of the Eastern Debating League season. The University team will uphold the affirmative of the question "Resolved: That education is the curse of the present age" This is the same subject that was contested in the Harvard Yale debate two weeks...
...held next Saturday at Princeton. The debate, which will be decided largely on the merits of oratory, hinges on the resolution: "That education is the curse of the present age." The University team, consisting of E. C. Sibley '28, Barrett Williams '28, and D. W. Chapman '27, will uphold the affirmative in the argument...
...folks in our school and a large percent of them read TIME. We are doing all we possibly can to overcome these evil influences and to have a paper or magazine in our library that advocates just what we are working against is something we do not plan to uphold...