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After a two-week hiatus due to a quarrel over Woodrow Wilson's veracity (TIME, Jan. 27), the Senate's Munitions Investigation Committee last week resumed its functions on its last allowance of $7,369. Back in the witness chairs were J. P. Morgan & partners (TIME, Jan. 20). On the first day Washington's Senator Bone gravely asked Banker Morgan whether he thought the next war would destroy civilization...
...hiatus followed the 1916 defeat in which Eddie Casey scored an unallowed touchdown, which, with other things makes Harvard players chew nails every time they think of the final score: Yale 6, Harvard...
...possibility and a highly feasible one which has often been propounded would be to omit Columbus day and Patriot's day from the college calendar and move them into the hiatus between Thanksgiving day and the succeeding weekend. This would make a pleasant four day vacation of some worth to anyone who lived within a few hundred miles of Cambridge. Today it is the practice followed almost universally at schools and colleges throughout the country. In the West and Middle West Columbus day is not so much as given a passing thought and Patriot's day is an unheard...
...great, a wealthy, and a powerful city. And for almost sixty years her industrious citizenry has submitted to the control of an incredibly arrogant, mendacious, and corrupt chain of municipal dynasties. Her example, although not solitary, serves to bring the issues into sharp relief. There is a serious hiatus in the democratic theory of government when it is applied to a teeming modern city, without the increasingly popular device of reserving administrative power to a non-partisan expert. With the exception of a few false dawns in American public life, such as the wondrous Tom Johnson or the velvet dominance...
Melody (words & music by Edward Childs Carpenter, Irving Caesar & Sig- mund Romberg; George White, producer). During a hiatus between Scandals, Producer White has turned his attention to operetta. This one is handsome, melodious, appealing to ear & eye rather than funnybone. It is the sort of play in which, by 11 o'clock, most of the actors are impersonating their grandchildren, for it begins in 1881, ends in 1933. Everett Marshall, having assisted Evelyn Herbert to cuckold her high-born husband on her wedding night, departs with French troops to Africa and is killed off early...