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Together with the National Academy and the American Philosophical Society, it constitutes the greatest aggregation of artists, scientists, and men-of-letters in the United States. The main function of the academy, in addition to maintaining a library of some 30,000 volumes, the distribution of funds for scientific research through its Rockford and Warren committees...
Except for the unquestioned integrity and approved patriotism of the incumbent Secretary of State," mused Senator Glass, "who may exactly say that the exercise-of this unprecedented power, totally at variance with any proper function of the Department of State, will not some day be so flagrantly prostituted as to result in a distressing scandal...
Senator Glass almost asked outright if the loan-reviewing function of the U. S. State Department had not been used as an illegitimate cudgel over the head of France in the current tariff controversy...
...Remus preliminaries were meat. He, Charles Phelps Taft II, lanky, a son of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, nephew and namesake of the publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star, outstanding member of an outstanding college class*, found in the Remus case his first opportunity to function with public importance. As prosecuting attorney of Hamilton county, Ohio, an office he attained last January, he began making meat out of poison by forcing 'Legger Remus to show how his proposed imported testimony would be relevant...
Founded a year ago, the Institute is essentially a conference involving consideration of the questions arising from the contact of Eastern and Western civilizations. Professor Wilson, who travelled to Honolulu last summer with 40 other delegates from the United States, explained the function of the organization to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...