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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Sargent was a second-rate derivative artist throughout his life, but even his advocates admit that his last period was a long retrogression and that he reached the lowest depths in the Widener Library pictures. If Mr. Potter still has doubts on the subject, he might ask any member of the Fine Arts Department; even those who are most sympathetic toward Sargent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Each Thing in Its Place Is Best" | 6/7/1929 | See Source »

...Album contains a complete record of the activities of the Senior class during its life in Harvard College. Written histories of each separate activity, athletic and non-athletic, are supplemented by photographs of groups and individuals. The usual section is devoted to biographies and pictures of each member of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR ALBUM TO GO ON SALE TODAY | 6/6/1929 | See Source »

...Carbide & Carbon, not at all is Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, last week elected Union Carbide & Carbon's Board Chairman. Following the death (TIME, April 8 et seq.} of Myron Timothy Herrick, who was Honorary Board Chairman, George O. Knapp, Board Chairman, added Honorary to his title and Mr. Billings, member of the Executive Committee, moved into the Chairmanship. Not carbon, however, but horses provide the basis for Mr. Billings' popular fame. For to trotting (as distinguished from running) horses, Mr. Billings brought not only a devotion to the 'breeding and racing of fine horses, but an amateur spirit extremely rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Horses, Flashlights | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...McBride classified Chairman Wickersham and Commissioner Newton Diehl Baker as men who did not "favor Prohibition," but who were for enforcement. Other observers generally believed that the commission stood, in advance, six-to-four for Prohibition, with one member uncertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Commission | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...unclassified member of the com-mission is the one woman on it, Miss Ada Louise Comstock, stately, broad-minded president of Radcliffe College. As a political independent, she has kept her Prohibition views strictly to herself. Soon after her appointment she was asked, of course, if she was related to the late great Reformer Anthony Comstock. She replied: "There is no traceable connection." Her legal credo is this: "I believe in as few rules as possible and a rigid enforcement of the rules that do exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Commission | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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