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...clipped. Heretofore, his was a high-handed office-he was not bound by the decisions of any of the executive departments; the Budget Act gave him a term of 15 years during which time he was not removable by the President. So he went doggedly ahead, running his blue pencil through Government expenditures-cutting out teatasters for the Navy, slashing the traveling expense allowances of Federal employes. He enraged many; some staunch Army and Navy men deemed him a menace to their free expansion. Now, perhaps, with the President's ouster power unrestrained, the squirming pencil of "Watchdog" McCarl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Unknown Ground | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Surgeon" and "Anti-Auto-erotist" invited 150 persons to his Manhattan residence, last week, to meet Queen Marie, to whom he was presented on the Leviathan a fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 18). The Queen did not appear. Mr. Buchman wrote "Ambassador Hotel, to meet Queen Marie" with a red pencil on 150 blank white cards. Then he and his guests trooped to Her Majesty's apartments in the Hotel Ambassador, presented their cards, were presented to the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Royalty Rambles | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Print Room at present is an exhibition of recently acquired facsimiles and photographs published by The Dial in 1923. There are paintings in oil, water colour, and tempera, drawings in crayon and pencil reproduced so miraculously that under glass it is impossible to detect them from originals. Picasso is there, Bonnard and Matisse, Vlaminck and Signac, and the Americans, John Marin and Charles Demuth, three of whose watercolors the Fogg acquired several years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BOSTON IS MODERN ART PAUPER"--BARR | 10/30/1926 | See Source »

Last week it was ascertained that Comptroller General McCarl, "watchdog of the treasury," had spent $1,650 for new rugs in his office. Criticism from various departmental heads who have felt Mr. McCarl's blue pencil slashes, brought forth the explanation that "he might have paid $6,000 for one rug, as did a certain Cabinet official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rugs | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...alcohol in order to multiply is the permanent slave type, destined to function like the worker bees." The burthen of his remarks was the old scare that the world's food supply will some day fall far short of its population. Childhood Memories. Compose yourself, be seated with pencil and paper, write down every thought that occurs to you for two hours. Do this several times and show the results to your parents. Very likely they will be able to corroborate many a thought as reflecting something that happened to you at a very early age, 6 mos. even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Advancers | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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