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...Another indication of President resurgence was his slashing message to Congress on utility holding companies (see p. 64). Once again the gifted phrasemaker and champion of Reform, he cried: "I am against private Socialism of concentrated private power as thoroughly as I am against Governmental Socialism. The one is equally as dangerous as the other; and destruction of private Socialism is utterly essential to avoid Governmental Socialism...
Encouraged by the success of Jack Dempsey's Manhattan restaurant (TIME, Dec. 24), Georges Carpentier, onetime light heavyweight champion of the world, opened a bar near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris...
Captain Don Horne, 200-yard breast stroke champion, who did the distance in 2 min., 29 sec. this year, will lead Northwestern. Among the other stars will be Bernard Hahn, Don Hervig, and Bill Rollinger...
Michigan, which is Yale's only rival for supremacy, will send 14 men, including Jack Kasley, 200-yard Conference breast stroke champion, Taylor Drysdale, Conference 150-yard back stroke champion, and Tex Robertson, Conference 400-yard swim and 220-yard free style champion...
...other mid-western college, Illinois, will enter Charlie Flachmann, Conference 50-yard and 100-yard champion, who set a new record of 23.4 sec. in a trial heat in the former event at Illinois last week and also lowered the Conference 100-yard swim record to 52.9 sec. Illinois will also enter W. C. Overman, J. D. Hickey, and Harry Hansen...