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...successor, disturbed Filipino politicos who feared the next Governor General would be less friendly, more dictatorial. This fear prompted Sergio Osmena, president pro tem, of the Senate to declare: "Everybody knows of the continuation of Governor Davis in office at great sacrifice on his part. Because of the invalid condition of Mrs. Davis, the Governor feels the necessity of joining his family in Paris. We hope he will be able to accomplish his desire equally satisfactorily by taking a temporary leave to which he has a right after two years of intense and active service in the islands...
...Long an invalid, retired in 1916 from his 22-year presidency and three-year chancellorship, 80-year-old Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus, had no active part in Stanford's latter-day development. Yet when the Stanford trustees meet this week, they and Stanford's Grand Old Man will all know that the important business before the meeting, a major milestone in Stanford's history, not only rests upon the foundations of Stanford as Dr. Jordan built it but derives from a conception of Stanford's destiny which Dr. Jordan long ago passed on to his successors for execution...
With him did not sail French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. During the week all Paris was agog with rumors that M. Raymond Poincare. invalid though he is, has decided to strain every nerve to prevent M. Briand from succeeding M. Doumergue as President...
...circulation growth at no increased page-rate and got thereby many an advertiser. Forthwith he cut Liberty's page-size, lost in goodwill what he had made in profit. James O'Shaughnessy, expert on advertising, was called in (TIME, July 29, 1929), but could not revive the invalid. Advertising makes a magazine pay; Liberty did not pay. It ailed, grew thinner, was printed on cheaper paper...
High ran the hopes of the Wets last December when U. S. District Court Judge William Clark, at Newark, N. J., handed down a decision that the 18th Amendment was invalid. Judge Clark, in quashing an indictment brought against one William Sprague for transporting a truck load of beer, had contended that the 18th Amendment should have been ratified by State conventions (representing the People) rather than by State legislatures (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week it was the Drys' turn for jubilance. Acting for the U. S. Supreme Court, speaking before a courtroom crowded but orderly, tall, bespectacled Associate...