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...politicians into enforcing the law of the land. Enforcement having made scarcely any headway lately, and many a politician who is neither wet nor dry having lately for- gotten to be dry outwardly, the Anti-Saloon League is reported ready to spend $600,000 the next few months to remind forgetful politicians of its power. As soon as may be, a successor to the late Mr. Wheeler as high-salaried, legalistic manipulator of funds and politicians, will be chosen. In the meantime, the League announced last week, double duty will be done by Dr. F. Scott McBride, whose functions hitherto...
...Robinson: "In some of the newer buildings in Moscow the architecture of American pyramided skyscrapers is imitated, and the revolving street signs for the control of traffic remind the American visitor of Broadway. The newest architecture, sculpture and painting show preoccupation with mechanical forms hardly to be matched in the United States, and magazines similar to Popular Mechanics are to be seen on all newsstands...
Anglo-French relations last week received a slight jog-just big enough to remind everybody that jogable relations exist...
...smiles were to welcome the audience and remind it that the Institute is wholly voluntary and unofficial, deliberative and not for action. "We are forever tinkering the machinery of Government," said Dr. Garfield. "Why not let it stand as it is ... when by the simple device of conference we may accomplish all that is desirable? Conference, the educational method, is the most potent . . . because it dispels ignorance and drives out fear; it discovers men of good will and substitutes the common welfare for common avarice...
Sirs: . . . Folks who rail at TIME because it's not like each and every other magazine remind me of the lady who on visiting New Orleans bitterly complained of not getting "veal cutlet served like they do in Philadelphia," while I was having the time of my life enjoying all the strange items on the daily menus-shrimp in various ways -baked Pompano-the delectable trout from Lake Pontchartrain, crab gumbo...