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The good people of a town the size of Canton are usually conscious of corruption on only two planes-the dismayingly magnified obscenities of their own local government, and the almost mystical dereliction of national officeholders, such as various members of the late President Harding's cabinet. But statues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Corruption | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

Argumentative Yankees, long irritated by the South's faith in an inerrant Jefferson Davis, are likewise distressed by your "Colonel's" failure to perceive any analogy between violation of the 14th and the 18th Amendments. A Main Street inter-racial dialog illuminates the difference: White Man: "Can you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Kent on the South | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

Roscoe Platt Conkling-for three weeks every scandal-nosing news cub has leered as he mouthed that name. Mr. Conkling is a roving gas engineer who plays the violin. Mrs. Sidney Erskine Brewster, petite and 26, did not guard the letters he wrote her with discretion. Mr. Brewster, 29, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Conkling | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Irene?she of the lips, the eyes?glitters in her uncounted jewels, and wiser men than Masterson perceive that the glitter is not all seraphic. Among them is the stockbroker, Masterson's friend, who used to kiss Irene in her maidenhood, a triviality which she has decided to conceal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Masterson | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

If the graduates of Harvard will observe how the recent additions to dormitories have been grouped with the older buildings, they will perceive that under the far-seeing leadership of President Lowell the college dwellings are already physically adaptable to college groups. The trend of thought among the undergraduates, who...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBERTS FAVORS HARVARD ADOPTION OF ENGLISH SUBDIVISION OF UNIVERSITY | 4/16/1926 | See Source »

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