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...chief agitator for freeing the Filipinos. Last summer he traveled to Manila, stirred the islands' little brown men to wild excitement. Standing before him, tall, handsome, was Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, 49-, onetime capitalist of Tulsa and fighting son of a poor immigrant Irishman. To counteract the Hawes agitation President Hoover sent Secretary Hurley to the Philippines last autumn. He left Washington determined that the U. S. should hold on to its Pacific possession. He returned with the same fixed idea. Last week he was summoned to the Capitol to testify on a bill prepared by Senators...
Busier was another Commissar last week, Andrey Andreevitch Andreev, recently appointed Commissar for Transportation. Fortnight ago he utilized his new powers by condemning four railwaymen of the Trans-Siberia Railway to death for criminal negligence (TIME, Jan. 11). Last week he attempted to counteract this unfortunate impression by announcing that a special de luxe train on the Trans-Siberia run will in future make the trip from Poland to Manchuria in seven days instead of eight. The good impression did not last. Three days later news got around of an accident even more dreadful than usual...
...that the first American holder of the Chair will thus be a Harvard graduate is only one reason for welcoming the announcement. Both as a poet, revealing, in controversial poems like "The Waste Land" the disintegration of modern life, and as an exponent of humanism, which he offers to counteract that disintegration, Mr. Eliot is a dominant personality in contemporary letters. His position as editor of the Criterion and his influence on such diverse figures as J. Middleton Murry, and the Sitwells, is striking, testimony to his importance in the literary world...
During the trial her letters were offered in evidence and attained wide publicity. Subsequent to the trial they came into my possession and have been carefully preserved. They are notable in that they quite counteract the sordid impression which one apparently gains from the cinema, and show the real tragedy of Miss Brown's unfortunate position during the last few weeks of her life. I am always willing to show these letters to anyone in whom Mr. Dreiser's book or the cinema has aroused interest...
...purpose, were built and housed in floating hangars on Lake Constance. In those days the anchor tanks were not lowered by cable, but gas was valved until the cars themselves touched the surface. Enough water ballast would then be admitted to tanks in the cars (which were seaworthy) to counteract the lifting power.* Thus balanced, the Zeppelins maneuvered easily as water ships by their own propellers and rudders...