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...misrepresentation. Whether or not the portrayal is incorrect is beside the point, for the reports of the Germans themselves fail to concur. But the fact remains that the subject was banned from England as unfit for reproduction on the screen, since it might be provocative of feeling not in accord with a spirit of pacification...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTLAWED HISTORY | 2/25/1928 | See Source »

...Keyserling's chief evidence in support of his statement, it is interesting to observe, is the prohibition problem. To the European mind it is a accepted theory that women are responsible for prohibition. They are accredited with bullying men into supporting a regulation which they formulated of their own accord and by sheer domination having it made into law. Furthermore, the woman politician has just begun her "epidemic of lawmaking" according to Count Keyserling. He paints a gloomy picture of a country reduced to the bondage of minor social laws about which the masculine politician has little or nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MATRIARCHATE | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

...death, with the rest of his collection in his Philadelphia house. Last week, British connoisseurs who viewed the collection of Lord Iveagh, shown to the public in London last week, discovered another Guitar Player, very similar to the Guitar Player in the Johnson collection. This they said with one accord, was the genuine Vermeer; the painting in the U. S. was a replica, a copy, an imitation, anything except the original Guitar Player by Jan Vermeer der Delft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vermeer Controversy | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Samuel Huntington Wolcott '03, of Boston and Readville, was appointed Commencement Day marshal for 1928 at a recent meeting of the Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. The selection was in accord with the tradition that the marshal shall be a member of the class, which celebrates on Commencement Day the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation from college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S.H. WOLCOTT TO BE ALUMNI MARSHAL FOR CLASS OF 1903 | 1/20/1928 | See Source »

...week, were of preponderant importance, the Council took certain official steps. It: 1) Authorized a $30,000,000 loan for Greece, to be raised in Great Britain and the U.S. under League sponsorship; 2) Approved registration with the League, last week, of the Franco-Jugoslav treaty of friendship and accord (TIME, Dec. 5); 3) Listened to the report of the League's Opium Commission which was read by its rapporteur, white-haired Senator Raoul Dandurand of Canada. He, trenchant, charged that traffic in illicit drugs is conducted by persons "with huge financial resources" in nearly every land. The Council then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Briand's Miracle | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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