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¶ Reconsidered and rejected (40-to-33) the nomination of George Otis Smith to be Chairman of the Federal Power Commission; ordered special counsel to start a quo warranto court action to test Chairman Smith's tenure of office over the Senate's objection.
The second; and perhaps more valid objection, is the inadvisability of introducing the subject into the secondary school curriculum. Culture, as a vocation, has been greatly, and justly, ridiculed. But it is still a very desirable attribute. It lies entirely within the province of the preparatory school to establish a...
Chaplin does not reject the sound-device because he does not think his voice will register. His objection is that cinema is essentially a pantomimic art. Says he: "Action is more generally understood than words. Like the Chinese symbolism it will mean different things according to its scenic connotation. Listen...
The chief objection to this is that it does not permit justice to be done to all students. One may have completed his examinations three weeks before and another a week and a half, thus allowing the former at least ten days more in which to recuperate from the mid...
In the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly George Arliss and Frank Vizetelly have admirably touched on the vagaries of modern diction. East side, West side, Limehouse, or Mayfair, Mr. Arliss believes in adopting the general mode of pronouncing his words and has little objection to enriching the language with...