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...Republican party will be victorious this fall regardless of who is nomi-nated"?William Morgan Butler, national G. O. P. chairman, hitherto insistent upon "drafting" President Coolidge...
...Hitherto the time in which a tutor, for instance, could carry on personal investigation in his own field, has been reduced to lowest terms, in some cases even eliminated. Thus the proximity of unparalleled faculties for original research work, the utilization of which should be one of the privileges of university residence, has done no more for many a faculty member than to place him in the dilemma of the Ancient Mariner. He has been obliged to use the Christmas and April vacations to accomplish what was impossible during either term...
Elected. John S. Keefe, 64, hitherto vice president & director, for 27 years, to be president of the American Steel & Wire Co.; to succeed the late William Pendelton Palmer...
Elected. Charles Eugene Johnston, 46, hitherto vice president and general manager, to be president of the Kansas City Southern Railway; to succeed Job Adolphus Edson, president for 22 of his 60 years in railroading. Leonor Dresnel Loree seeks to unite the K. C. S. R. with the St. Louis-Southwestern and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas as a southwestern railroad system (TIME...
Excess Baggage. This romance of a tightrope walker proved agreeable. Vaudeville slang and another peek into the no longer private lives of stage people were foremost factors. The hitherto useless wife of the tight-rope man suddenly became a famous movie star. She went slack on her marital obligations, one of which was to stand at the stage end of the tightrope when her husband took his famed slide from the balcony. In her absence, he took the slide (in full view of the audience) and crashed. She hurried out to pick up the pieces; love bloomed anew...