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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spent over several years. To prevent the inevitable free-for-all fight that would have ensued among "pork" starved Congressmen, the unique expedient was adopted of allowing the Secretary of the Treasury to decide how the money should be spent (subject, however, to Congressional veto). Incidents. In the first rank of incidentals, aside from legislation were: 1) The ousting (TIME, April 19) of Mr. Brookhart from the Senate in favor of Daniel Steck, his Democratic opponent in Iowa in the election of 1924; 2) The impeachment of a Federal district judge, George W. English of Illinois, the tenth time...
...Young Lady of Fashion tripped from between gay board covers this spring, ran up the scale of her unrestrained amours and crescendoed into nine U. S. editions in two months.* Britons capitulated even earlier to the vital, indiscreet Cleone when Lord Darling publicly declared: "Her diary must rank with ' that of Pepys' as a record of its time." Only an occasional reviewer dismissed the work as "that diverting hoax." Last week the "diarist" proclaimed herself. She is Magdalen King-Hall, 19, daughter of His Britannic Majesty's onetime Admiral Commanding on the Coast of Ireland...
...unusual enthusiasm which enables it to hold high the torch and keep the organization going when they are so poorly and inadequately paid. Strangely enough there are no aristocrats in Spain interested enough in music to serve as patrons or in any way to encourage musical development. The rank and file of the Spanish people are music lovers, but the aristocracy do not, as a rule, even attend the concerts. The unselfish enthusiasm of the members of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra is touching. They played for me for three rehearsals without remuneration, and the complete sale of the house, when...
...York Evening Post. The man whom Mr. Curtis secured is Julian Mason, who violates all newspaper tradition by being an exceedingly well dressed man, the best dressed editor in the country.* But Mr. Mason is not simply a natty dresser. He brought the Chicago Evening Post to a high rank among the newspapers of that city, was then called to Manhattan to become managing editor of the Tribune, now the Herald Tribune, the prosperity of which has risen phenomenally under his régime...
There are, no doubt, further conclusions to be drawn from the answers to the questionnaire, but many of them rank-among the sentiments that have not yet crystallized. It is for the country-wide college public to make all it can of the publicity which reveals it coping with similar problems and cooperating more through contagion than contact...