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...committee of members of the American Institute of Architects appointed by the Treasury Department, the Fine Arts Committee of the District of Columbia, the Supervising Architect and the United States Public Buildings Com-mission approved and recommended the use of Indiana Limestone for at least the first two buildings, those for the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Department of Commerce...
...House tariff-makers ceased their activities with Schedule VII (Agricultural Products). But tariff-making is the oldest U. S. political game next to taxation. Every U. S. producer claims special consideration, paints a terrifying picture of his ruin by cheap foreign competition. Under insist ent pressure, the Ways & Means Com mittee as usual broke, gave ground, widened tariff revision to include many a nonagricultural product. It was these other increases which chiefly distressed the farmer...
...France have both delighted Frenchmen. They like Myron Timothy Herrick, and they thought Benjamin Franklin was délicieux. Therefore Parisians were a-tiptoe with anticipation, last week, as the state-owned Théâtre de L' Odéon (second only in kudos to the Comédie Francaise) started rehearsing Pauvre Richard...
...years the Metropolitan Opera Com pany has talked of a new opera house. So, but for a lesser time, has the Chicago Civic Opera Company. In Manhattan, however, Chairman Otto H. Kahn of the Metropolitan directors was thwarted in his choice of site, whereas in Chicago, President Samuel Insull let nothing interfere. In consequence when the Chicago opera ended its home season last week, it ended also its residence in the Auditorium which 40 years ago was dedicated by President Benjamin Harrison and Vice President Levi P. Morton, with incidental music by Adelina Patti. Romeo et Juliet had been...
...course adopted by Mr. Ramsey MacDonald in 1924 should again com mend itself to him and to Mr. Lloyd George (Leader of the Liberal Party), I should like to obtain co-operation from the outset of the inquiry...