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...World Court proposed by Senator Lodge without consulting him (TIME, May 19). It was generally conceded that the Lodge Court was ready for its political obsequies, if it had not been stillborn. What was needed was a new scion, begotten or adopted with the President's assent, one in whom the party could unite its fondest hopes, one to whom it could Point with Pride in the next campaign...
...house on the Boulevard du Bois de Boulogne in Paris said when questioned about the sale: "See the treasurer of my household. ... I occupy myself with nothing concerning the sale. My Berlin agents receive offers in my name. The French and German Governments doubtless will have to give their assent to the sale, which will be a pure formality. I shall have to intervene only when the sale is concluded...
Certain phases of Page's theory are generally accepted today, but much of it runs counter even to the Einstein doctrines, which are increasingly commanding the assent of physicists and astronomers. All recent Nobel prize-winners -Guillaume, Einstein, Bohr, Millikan- have been men who, if not hitherto internationally known, have been favorably regarded among their own scientific compatriots. Most scholars will require more objective evidence before they will approve so unaccountable a choice...
...included: ¶ The discovery that Edward B. McLean (TIME, March 10), owner of the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, is a special agent of the Department of Justice, at a salary of $1 a year. McLean's connection with the oil scandal is that he gave tentative assent to Mr. Fall's attempt to make the investigating committee believe that a newspaper publisher, not an oil magnate, had lent him $100,000. ¶ The publication of a telegram from Mr. Doheny to .Senator Walsh, investigator, saying "Merry Christmas from Mrs. Doheny and me to you and yours...
...making of a faith a matter of adventure rather than a matter of assent...