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...published in your issue No. 14 [TIME, Oct. 3], that Consul General Curtis be requested to resign in the absence of an explanation, satisfactory to Mr. La Dow, of why he permitted himself to be photographed in the vicinity of that dread beverage-beer, it would be splendid to appoint Mr. La Dow a censor of the habits and morals of Americans traveling abroad. In performing the pious functions of that position, meticulously as his intense but individual patriotism would dictate, he could incidentally be charged with the authority to summarily dismiss those representatives of our Government abroad whose conceptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...President's most important memorandums is: "Appoint a Governor-General of the Philippines, an Ambassador to Mexico, an Ambassador to Cuba." Last week his mind had to jot a postscript: "Item, a Governor of the Federal Reserve Board." Governor Daniel Richard Crissinger had tendered his resignation (See POLITICAL NOTES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...city manager system much resembles the structure of a business corporation. There is a city council or commission like a board of directors, elected by the people. The councilors or commissioners sometimes appoint a vestigial sort of mayor whose functions are chiefly social. Their important appointee is an executive who man ages the actual government and then tells the council or commission about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curing Cities | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...Illinois law under which the Chicago school system operates. His defense will set forth that the intention of the law was to make the superintendent of Chicago's schools, not a "hired man" of Chicago's school board, but an executive which the board is required to appoint, drawing an independent authority from the same source that created the school board, i.e. the state legislature. Should this distinction be successfully made, politics will actually be further removed from public education in Chicago than they were before the McAndrew case was contrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago Convulsion | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...RESOLVED by the House of Representatives, That the President of the United States be requested to appoint the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin an admiral in the Navy and to place him in command of the battleship West Virginia, the pride of the Navy, with orders to anchor at New York Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Admiral Heflin | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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