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...Murphy in his stead. In the contest to succeed James Couzens in the U. S. Senate, the voters picked Democratic Representative Prentiss M. Brown. Senator Couzens having died during the campaign, the Republicans had one consolation prize. Before Governor Fitzgerald left office he could bestow an honor and an honorarium on some loyal Republican by appointing him to fill out Senator Couzens' unfinished term. This week Mr. Fitzgerald made his choice. Said he: "The high office of United States Senator is nothing to toy with as a means of bestowing an honor that calls for no work...
...more correct news from this part of the world. In these days of delicate feeling between America and Japan such reports as this one I have criticized may do much harm. To make your correspondent realize the enormity of his offense-I suggest that you dock his next honorarium a substantial amount and apply the same to extend my subscription to TIME-so that I may go on indefinitely enjoying your magazine-even though I cannot now be sure that the fascinatingly entertaining accounts of affairs from various parts of the world are always correct. A. D. BERRY...
...Congress: Succeeding the late great Ollie James in the House, he helped to put through the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. A Methodist Dry, he was not above accepting fees (called an "honorarium") for making speeches for the Anti-Saloon League. As a member of the Interstate Commerce Committee he was interested in railroad labor (Howell-Barkley Bill). His measure, a forerunner of the Railway Labor Act, was not passed but the vote on it a decade ago still serves organized Labor as a political index to determine its Congressional friends and foes. In 1926 he was elected...
...There the judges and trustees (of which Professor Savage is one) of the American Academy in Rome inspect each individual. The judges' choice, traditionally a personable as well as talented young man, receives from the Academy a studio and residence on Rome's Janiculum Hill for three years?an honorarium valued at about $8,000?plus $500 in traveling expenses...
...Budapest, Rudolph Steinherz,*; wine- merchant, got young Lajos Naghazy to murder him in a railway carriage. Object: that the Steinherz family might collect a large insurance policy. Honorarium to Lajos Naghazy: a gold watch...