Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Argument. The sole question at issue was the legal one: "Is a U.S. Senator a state officer?" The Committee on Elections, headed by Senator Goff of West Virginia, decided "No." A minority report was made by a Democrat, Senator Stephens of Mississippi, saying "Yes." A Senator is paid by the Federal government but chosen by the state. Whose officer is he? Some Senators declared it would be unfair to deprive a state of its full representation because of a legal technicality...
...greatly to be doubted whether the accepted view has not seriously overrated the value of college to the man whose life is to be spent in the ordinary channels of industry and commerce. A recent report on college graduates as railway executives declared as much. The News has stated the idealistic view of college education, its aims and advantages. But the bulk of college students--not the best students in the finest colleges--but the mass of students in the general run of institutions from one end of the country to the other, are not seeking these things. They...
...should have from Harvard University a direct report of its decision in regard to a memorial of him and of all Harvard men who died for the cause of the Allies in the World...
...their own devising. Such performances, wherever conducted, seldom bring anything startling to light. They would never be held if there was any likelihood of a grave discovery. The undergraduate critic has had no working knowledge of any college other than his own (save in exceptional cases like the report of the student committee at Dartmouth [TIME, Aug. 4, 1924], which very intelligently visited other institutions), and even of his own college the undergraduate critic has but an imperfect, close-range conception...
...ceased to predominate. Nine tenths of the show is typical revue vaudeville, exceedingly well dressed at times and conscientiously undressed at others. Broad farce and slim figures alternate. The U. S. contributions are as usual and a little better than usual. About the French there is not much to report except that Yvonne George sings her songs. Mlle. George is to many people the greatest European revue and cabaret artist, only excepting Raquel Meller. To miss her is to miss one of the most, if not the most, extraordinary experience to be had at any revue this season...