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...fortnight ago a secret service agent caused a flare-up in the Philippines. He was accused of graft, acquitted and reinstated after his trial by Governor General Leonard" Wood. Thereupon the Cabinet - or more properly the " Council of State" - resigned (TIME, July...
...announced that the Russians are now better off than they ever were under the Tzar, that Soviet government with a well trained army of 600,000 is stable, that " there were signs of prosperity on every side," that graft is nonexistent, that the hatred of Russians for religion is exaggerated, that the Russian government will honor the debts to Americans contracted by its predecessors (Tzarist and Kerensky, that Trotzky is willing to guarantee American property rights in Russia. In short he believes that Russia is taking up "sensible communism" and he joins the Senators who demand American recognition of Russia...
Major General John F. O'Ryan, who is in charge of the Senate investigation of the Veterans' Bureau, produced the first results of his work. He turned over to the Department of Justice evidence which may lead to prosecution for graft against seven dentists who are alleged to have been paid for services not rendered...
Among the Pulitzer prizes awarded annually is one of $1,000 for the "best reportorial work of the year"-the tests being accuracy, terseness and " the accomplishment of some public good." The prizes were recently awarded for 1922. The " best reporter," however, did not expose a great graft ring, did not describe a great national catastrophe, did not report a momentous political event, made no great " scoop." What he reported was a convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Cambridge, Mass, (last December). The man was Alva Johnston, then with The New York Times, now with...
...Blanc fainted when the order was read to him and again on reaching his residence; he is now suffering from a paralytic stroke. His dismissal follows the exile from the municipality of Mme. Chinon, famous adventuress, " Madame Pompadour of Monaco." It is the outcome of some remarkable revelations of graft unearthed by special auditors appointed by the Prince. Recently Prince Louis discovered that the Principality had been defrauded of more than...