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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Schall is a Minneapolitan from the city 15 miles from St. Paul, though some would put it that St. Paul is 15 miles from Minneapolis.* St. Paul has recently been congratulating itself upon its pre-eminence at Washington. Though both U. S. senators come indeed from Minneapolis, yet the St. Paul roster includes Secretary of State Kellogg, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Edwin Olds.† Solicitor General William D. Mitchell, Rush D. Simmons, in charge of Internal Revenue probes, and a number of others in lesser position."* Last week to this total was added another. Senator Schall, performing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Home Town Group | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Harkened as Lord Middleton declared: "It is midwinter madness for the Government to have cut the Army 234,500 men from its pre-War strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...attainment of the musical ideal, there is said to be a two-fold struggle: the creation of a perfect art, and the elevation of humanity to the point of appreciating it. In the first, Walter Damrosch is no pre-eminent figure. In the second, he is perhaps the greatest of all. Despite his drawing room graces, he is, at heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Out Among the People | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...Like many another state, New York has a rule requiring four-year courses of instruction at chartered colleges. With the rising popularity and evident success of "junior colleges," especially in the West, for post-high-school-and-pre-university study, these rules are vanishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sarah Lawrence College | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...following pre-review of "The Wise Man" was written for the Crimson by D. G. Robinson '26, Adaptor and Translator of the Dramatic Club's Miracle Play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADAPTOR REVIEWS H. D. C.'S MIRACLE PLAY | 12/16/1926 | See Source »

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