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Pessimistic and critical are the ideas of Burton Holmes, travel-lecturer interviewed in this issue, on the general topics of prohibition, education and the democratic form of government. According to this widely-travelled observer, the United States is not likely to achieve temperance, education is impossible without affectation, and rule by an absolute monarch--friendly of course--is more to be desired than rule by a majority. This has all been said before. To criticise the existing order has never been difficult...
...Duzer Burton, Baltimore socialite, gave a ball at his home near Monkton, Md. (once the house of dandaical Sportsman Foxhall Keene). At midnight, while the orchestra was playing a waltz, into the ballroom in his pink hunting coat gravely rode Van Duzer Burton on Golden Eagle, his favorite hunter...
...Carl Van Vechten (class of 1903). But among the many now-famed names and faces which Barber Bratfish has known ahead of the world are Homer Guck (1904, now publisher of the Chicago Herald & Examiner), William Patterson MacCracken (1909, until lately Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics), Arthur Burton Rascoe (1911-13) now associate editor of Plain Talk), Lawrence H. Whiting (1913, now president of Indiana Limestone Co.), Charles Glore (1910, now manager of Field, Glore & Co., investments). And in the class of 1907 Barber Bratfish well knew the stripling figure of Harold Higgins Swift, now vice president of Swift...
...three others: Harry Pratt Judson, 1906-23; Ernest DeWitt Burton, 1923-25; Max Mason...
...with vaseline before making a campaign speech, was re-elected to the seat for a term expiring in 1933. He died in 1928. Appointed was Cyrus Locher. Ohio voters rejected him in 1928. He, too, is now dead. Mr. Locher's conqueror at the polls was Theodore Elijah Burton, buried last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Governor Myers Cooper appointed Roscoe Conkling McCulloch to the seat. Next year Ohio voters will again have to select a man to finish out the term to which they originally chose Willis...