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...boards of trustees and governors, seems at least in one instance to have contained a certain measure of truth. The Board of Managers of Millikin University, which derives its income from an estate, refused, among other acts of a somewhat arbitrary nature, to renew the contracts of two professors; whereupon the entire student body went out on strike...
Because obsolete boilers were responsible for the failure of several battle- ships to meet the test of the recent naval maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea, (TIME, Jan. 28), it was proposed to install oil-burning boilers in the Florida, Utah, Arkansas, Wyoming, New York, Texas. Whereupon Premier MacDonald declared in the British House of Commons that this action would be a violation of the naval limitation treaty. After taking counsel of the Department of State, Representative Butler, Chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, reported last week a vigorous Naval Constitution Bill, appropriating $110,560,000. The bill calls...
There was a dinner at the National Republic Club, Manhattan. Nathan Krass, famed rabbi, made an impassioned appeal for unity among Catholics, Protestants and Jews to foster religious instruction. Said he: "The one great church in America that has done its duty (in this respect) is the Catholic Church." Whereupon Ernest Stires, famed P. E. rector of St. Thomas, said that criticism of the parochial school system of the Catholic Church by non-Catholics should be deferred until other churches had done as much for religious education...
...Whereupon the full choir and orchestra responded nobly and loudly, with...
...Nowadays an army or a navy without an air-force is like a boxer entering a fight blind-folded;" whereupon to prove his point, General Patrick proceeded to show some terrifying pictures of the bombing of the battleship Alabama. Exactly six minutes elapsed between the moment when the 2000 lb, bomb struck the deck of the doomed ship to the time when its keel disappeared beneath the sea. And to show how much the art of air-offence has improved, nowadays three air-planes can drop in one fight as many tons of bombs as were dropped on London during...