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Congressional investigation of the conduct of the Veterans' Bureau (TIME, Nov. 5) continued with more hearings before a sub-committee of the Senate. The evidence presented, while almost entirely that of the investigators, pointed to a network of graft and political " pull." Some of the charges were...
...excusable calamity." General Allen was then asked if a stronger treaty alliance with Great Britain would be the steadying and binding influence. "That is not the idea at all" he replied. "We do not need political union with England, in fact we should keep away from the network of international rules which in themselves furnish plenty of ground for all sorts of bickering. Friendly feeling is the thing that should be developed. This does not mean that we, as a nation, must give up those principles of independence for which we fought with England at the time of the Revolution...
...miles, formerly appearing pale yellow like a desert region, has changed to a dusky brown. Some of the so-called lakes which had almost disappeared, have become unusually dark lately. New canals have appeared and others have changed color or broadened. But they do not show the vast, complicated network which Professor Lowell thought he observed there. The most distinctive features of the Martian topography are the polar snowcaps, brilliant white patches at the respective poles, which expand in the Martian winter and diminish in summer, just as the arctic regions on the earth. The color changes in the canals...
France is supreme in the air. Her fighting squadrons number 140 and comprise about 1,200 modern airplanes. A network of air lines radiates from Paris to London and to all parts of the Continent, providing a large reserve of planes immediately convertible to war use and of well trained pilots. To this great air force England opposes only 35 squadrons, most of them scattered in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, India. English commercial air services are small in number, though highly efficient in operation. French political purposes are not too clearly defined, but there is no doubt that in the next...
Samuel Gompers attacked the American Fund for Public Service, Inc., (an institution controlling $800,000 of the inheritance of Charles Garland, radical and eccentric millionaire) as serving to bring together through its trustees " an interlocking network" of 50 or more " pacifist and revolutionary organizations of a more or less extreme character...