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...Edward Fitzgerald had a real affection for the pedigreed Guernsey bull belonging to Mrs. Helen Ledger Wood of Red Bank, N. J., where he was formerly employed. Every Sunday afternoon he visited the bull, petted him, let him out of the pen for a romp. Last week he was found gored to death...
...civic conduct in Pennsylvania-the primary slush funds and Governor Pinchot's petticoat "supergovernment" with the W. C. T. U. (TIME, July 5, CRIME)-may be added a minor sideshow at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial. The Sesquicentennial itself will probably come out on the wrong side of the ledger, but Philadelphians are consoled by the knowledge that local politicians will profit handsomely in real estate adjacent to the exhibition site, which it was their august privilege to select...
...Appropriations Committee are to find out the financial needs of the various Departments of the Cabinet, to frame them into bills, to confer and bicker with the House Appropriations Committee, and to guide deftly the resulting bills through Congress. Then he is left to explain the Government ledger to the people...
...Author. William Christian Bullitt is a 35-year-old Philadelphian who, after a brilliant career at Yale, reported abroad and at Washington for the Philadelphia Public Ledger. His abilities and connections obtained him a position in the U.S. State Department, which sent him to Paris attached to the Peace Commission. In 1919 he went on a special mission to Russia, causing a diplomatic ruction of international proportions when, upon his return, he divulged various Allied attitudes toward the Soviet regime. He left the State Department under something of a cloud. In 1921 he accepted the post of "managing editor...
...retiring President, Dr. J. McKeen Cattell of Manhattan, and by its President for 1926, Dr. Michael I. Pupin. Dr. Cattell described "a new profession of psychological and industrial engineering," already successful in England. "In every field of activity, from the use of the pick and shovel, of typewriter and ledger, through the factory and office, to the organization of the work of the Executive or the Congress of the nation, investigations might be made which, if put into effect, would add from 10% to 100% to effective productivity and lessen to an equal extent effort and fatigue." Dr. Cattell told...