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Theology emanating from Gainesville, Tex., tickled the ear of the musical press last week. The Gainesville despatch in part...
Female teachers having continued to multiply in England during the . past year, a despatch from London last week stated that the seceding males (the National Association of Schoolmasters) had again aired their masculinity, pointing their resolution this time with a protest against the inspection of boys' physical training classes by women...
With regard to the Earl of Balfour, a despatch from Cairo stated that Balfour's train was ferried across the Suez. It is well known that there are no bridges across the Canal...
According to a despatch from Moscow, ex-War Lord Leon Trotzky was not elected a member of the Council of People's Commissars, as stated in TIME last week (Page 10, col. 1). It was expected that M. Trotzky would be made Commissar of Foreign Trade; but, at the eleventh hour, it was decided that any rearrangement of the Council would be interpreted abroad as a symptom of weakness. The election of Trotzky referred to last week was to the Federal Congress of Soviets. A report from Moscow, via Berlin, stated that Ivan Stalin was using Trotzky...
According to a despatch from West Frankfort, Ill., the motive power of The West Frankfort American's press ceased to function last week. Editor Byron Elkins cogitated. He stepped into the street, backed "a small automobile" into his shop, jacked up the wheels, attached a belt, ran off his editions "at the rate of 30 miles an hour." He alleged that he got "1,500 papers to a gallon of gasoline...