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Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island, primate of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America, paused at Chicago last week after an inspection of his Church's status in the Midwest. In view of Roman Catholicism's westering trend (TIME, Oct. 13), the kernel of his observations was interesting. "Being equidistant between the Atlantic and Pacific," said he, "Chicago naturally crystallizes the attitude and thinking of the whole country. I consider the middle west the strategic centre of the future, not only for the church and organized religion generally, but for education as well...
Result: From within Leader Baldwin's own party he was mocked by Baron Beaverbrook for first swallowing the Canadian scheme whole, then spitting out the wheat kernel. "Baldwin! Baldwin! Again Baldwin!" sneered the press peer in one of his papers. "We want no more of Baldwin!" (Baron Beaverbrook of course advocates food tariffs.) As a matter of expediency the MacDonaid cabinet pigeonholed Canada's straightforward proposal last week in an especially created committee, sorely vexed Canada's Bennett who soon afterward gave a dinner to all important correspondents in London, thereby, perhaps, increasing their sympathy with...
Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata by Pianist Alfred Cortot and Violinist Jacques Thibaud (Victor, $10)?The David and Jonathan of musicians play expertly the Sonata dedicated to the once eminent violinist, Rudolph Kreutzer. Later Tolstoy added to its lustre by using it as the kernel of his hotly-debated novel...
Subscriber Mendum is correct. Wallace's Farmer sold perpetual subscriptions from 1910 to 1927. Several thousand are still in effect. TIME will not include any refunding feature. To do so would destroy the kernel of perpetuity...
...following is clipped from a four column critique of the Harvard education appearing in Sunday's Boston Globe. It contains what might be called the kernel of the article...