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Political commentators in the U. S., notably the late Frank I. Cobb of the Dem ocratic New York World, have often urged responsible Cabinet Government for this country. In England, Cabinet executives are not only permitted, but are required by custom to go before Parliament to explain and defend bills proposed by the party in power. In the U. S., political parties can, and regularly do, evade responsibility by shifting it, as may be convenient, from executive to legislative or vice versa...
Later in the week Inquisitor Nye's committee announced that it would examine the papers of the late President Harding, particularly those concerning the sale of his Marion Star for the large sum of $380,000. On the floor of the Senate, that same afternoon, campaign funds were on a dozen lashing tongues. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democrat, told of a Republican dinner in Chicago in 1920 where Vice President Coolidge made "a rip snorting speech" before "the big fat fellows from all over the country, who had more money than they knew what to do with." Senator Borah...
...earthquake of very marked intensity was recorded late Wednesday evening by the University seismograph in the basement of the Peabody Museum on Oxford Street...
These lectures are established upon a bequest of the late Professor Waterman Hewett, of Cornell University, and will probably be given at intervals of three or four years...
...Senatorial investigation into the Teapot Dome scandal. As Professor Hart pointed out in his interview in yesterday's Crimson, the collaboration of prominent men was necessary to the scheme, and the searchers finally reached the summit when Senator Nye, chairman of the committee, announced that the estate of the late Warren G. Harding would be investigated for traces of the missing Continental Oil Company bonds which were part of Sinclair's contribution to the campaign fund. The fact that a president of the United States should be suspected of receiving bribes shows the extent to which dishonesty had spread...