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...press. First employed to propagate information, its functions have been successively enlarged. It becomes a gatherer of information, a purveyor of amusement, a persuader of public opinion. Is this only a beginning? Ever and anon a paper branches into some new activity, startling in its ambition. Last week Collier's, a weekly of this and that, decided to attempt an experiment in Government. It had a plan for municipal government. It not only explained and advocated its plan, it also offered to lend the active assistance of a number of its staff members to any small city which would...
...Collier Trophy, awarded annually for the "most notable advance in aviation," will he retained another year by the Air Mail Service. The wonderful transcontinental night flights of the Post Office pilots last August (TIME, Sept. 3) earned the unanimous vote of the Contest Committee of the National Aeronautic Association, though they were free to select the winner from a wide field of Army, Navy and civilian contestants...
Ramsay Macdonald, Prime Minister of England: "One William H. Crawford, writing in Collier's Weekly stated that he had passed a cigarette case to my daughter Ishbel and her brother Malcom, and that I had looked at him sternly and said: 'My children are not modern enough to smoke.' He went on to say: 'Neither he nor his children play cards. There was no liquor in the Macdonald household. His children do not go to dances or theatre parties, but they have plenty of sport...
...following men have been appointed: Law School, J. B. Douglas 3L; Business School, Shaw Livermore 2G.B; School of Architecture, S. P. Moorehead 2S.A.; School of Landscape Architecture, B. D. Williams S.L A; Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, J. P. Baxter 3rd 2G.; Graduate School of Education, E. R. Collier 3G.Ed.; Theological School, R. E. Starkey ST.S.; Medical School, C. P. Rhoads 4M; Dental School, N. G. Newman Jr. 2D. A Citizens' Committee, which will include many men of national prominence, is now in process of formatives...
...Douglas 31, from the Business School, Shaw Livermore 20 B: from the School of Architecture S. P. Moorehead 28 A, from the School of Landscape Architecture B. D. Williams3.S.1.A, from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. J. P. Baster 2d.2Q; from the Graduate School of Education E. R. Collier 3G. Ed of Cambridge; from the Theological School R.K. Starker; from the Medical School, C. P. Rhoids 4M.; and from the Dental School N. G. Newman Jr. 3D of Dorchester...