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...were played Saturday on the Jarvis Field courts, the situation is generally what had been expected by the dopesters, with one exception. This surprise was furnished when Bonner, playing 7 on the Exeter team, defeated Crosby, the star captain of the Andover sextet, in the third round, by the wide margin of 6-1, 6-2. By this victory Bonner is now a formidable player in the fourth round, one before the semi-finals. Living up to expectations, W. W. Ingraham of the Woonsocket High School won from DuBois of Milton in the first round, and A. W. Jones...
...American Union Against Militarism" suggests that these provisions might be used against a strike. It is now widely recognized that certain strikes do constitute national emergencies. In the coal strike of last winter a small percentage of the population threatened to disrupt the life of the entire country. If such action does not constitute civil war, it is certainly as dangerous as any open, armed conflict might be. These provisions might be used against a nation-wide strike in an essential industry. They should be used in such an emergency...
...containing as much as one-half of one per cent of liquor measured by volume. The reason for this seemingly small limit is not as fully understood as it should be and the reason for the rule is because of the attitude of the brewers themselves. The early state wide prohibition laws quite generally permitted the manufacture and sale of beer containing alcohol up to two per cent. The brewers who, in fact controlled in one way or another a great part of the saloons, were determined that they would obey no prohibition law whatever. Accordingly they followed the policy...
United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson entered upon his political career just ten years ago. A practicing attorney in San Francisco and regarded as one of the leading men of his profession in his native state, he had attracted wide attention by his masterly handling of the prosecution of Abraham Ruef, the boodling boss of the city by the Golden Gate, after Francis J. Heney, assistant district attorney, had been shot down in court. Johnson stepped into Heney's place and, without compensation, fought the case through bitter weeks to a verdict for conviction...
...that one would become "fed up"; but this is not true, as there are intermissions between periods, and as attendance at all of the courses is not compulsory. In conclusion let me sum up the daily program by saying that it offers a practical course of study of world-wide present-day problems in a congenial environment without infringing on one's complete enloyment of the summer vacation. F. W. WILLETT...