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...Senate, Senator James E. ("Big Jim") Watson, a Republican opportunist, might well, it was conceded, be beaten by young Albert Stump, whose personality reminded older citizens of how Albert J. Beveridge had looked, and behaved at his age. Evans Woollen, an Indianapolis banker of 62, whose intellectual integrity had hitherto been considered a handicap, appeared to have some chance of beating his opponent, Republican Senator Arthur R. Robinson. So stated, the situation is simple enough, but there are reasons behind even so simple "a thing as a State's dissatisfaction with the party in power. Responsible for the hope...
...Hitherto-since 1916-it has been illegal to barter paper francs for gold francs in France on any other basis than the legal fiction that one gold franc (always worth 19.3 cents or more) was worth one paper franc (once worth as little as 2.08 cents [TIME, July...
Whether Columbus journeyed to an unexpected discovery of the archipelago, hitherto undeveloped by Florida "realtors" with the express purpose of proving that gesture is essential to after dinner speaking--the egg trick--or merely because his instinct for reformation, change, decided his eventual research for some panacea for the less pleasing odors of Europe--will never be known--for it remains difficult to psycho-analyze the dead. At all events, he came, he saw--and conquered the emotions of future generations to the extent of rendering unto Harvard a holiday in the month of October...
...open last week was a reported offer by the Calles Government to recognize and tolerate a Mexican Pope who should have no connection with the See of Rome. Though many of the Roman Catholic prelates of Mexico are pure-blooded Mexicans (some are even Mexican Indians), the Episcopate has hitherto repudiated all proposals of this sort. None the less Mexican news organs reported last week that Bishop Diaz of Tabasco "Generalissimo of the Episcopate" had been recalled hastily from a tour of the provinces by the Archbishop of Mexico to confer as to a compromise with officials of the Mexican...
...express, to Beau which contained advertising from eminently respectable tradesmen, such as Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc. (collars, shirts) and Levy Bros. & Adler-Rochester (good suitings). Casanova Jr.'s Tales, edited by one Francis Page, advertised stimulating material by Aubrey Beardsley, Catulle Mendès and Casanova himself ("hitherto obtainable only in editions costing from $50 to $500"). It republished My First Thirty Years by Gertrude Beasley, with assurance that these charming revelations had been admired by H. L. ("Hatrack") Mencken and suppressed both here and abroad. Two Worlds, braving the mails, offered thitherto unpublished work by Boccaccio; some confessions...