Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week one more Canadian province seemed likely to re-enter the Wet list. In the New Brunswick Legislature, Lieutenant Governor William F. Todd, committed the Government to "important provisions in connection with the sale of intoxicating liquor." As the present administration has a three-fourths majority in the legislature, any liquor control bill it submits could be easily put through...
...still allows girls as young as 14 years to be registered and licensed. The Mediterranean lands are declared the chief source of "white slaves," and Latin America is the principal consumer region. During the reading of the Committee's report-signed by its U. S. Chairman, William F. Snow-a member of the French delegation rose to protest the Committee's translation of tenancière into English as "madame." Tenancière, he protested, meant a woman who kept disorderly premises; and madame is the ordinary title of married Frenchwomen. Tiems! Did the Committee propose to slander...
Clarence Walker Barron, editor: "This item appeared in my Barron's Weekly, financial newspaper, last week: 'Bewhiskered men in the financial district are not common. Some favor the mustache, but few go in for beards. George F. Baker, dean of the American banking field, is entitled to the honor of maintaining the dignity of bankers for he boasts a full-fledged beard, while the dignified whiskers of C. W. Barron, dean of the American financial news field, are known in Europe and Asia as well as the United States and Canada. Another internationally known individual whose consumption...
...repertory, Eva Le Gallienne revives Susan Glaspell's Inheritors, a play on true Americanism. For those who do not object to a lofty propaganda with their theatre, it offers tense, lucid drama. For others, it seems wordy. The first scene shows the farmer-pioneer, Silas Morton (Robert F. Ross), struggling against the materialism of his family who object to bequeathing their best hill to the state for the erection of a college that will preserve "the best that has been thought and said." But in 1879, Morton College is founded. By 1920, it has grown so that state appropriations...
Bishop William F. Anderson, Boston Methodist, paused during his labors at a ministerial conference in New Jersey to explain that the suicide "epidemic" was due to failure of religious instruction in the home; also to "the tenseness of modern living," "physical pleasures," "material values...