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To escape their dilemma the committee members passed the matter entirely to National Chairman William Morgan Butler, in whose quietly determined mind the decision probably rested anyway. Mr. Butler chose, and the committee unanimously elected, Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Keynoter Fess | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Schaefer, who had been chalking his cue nervously while Horemans shot, bent over the table. With a few beautiful billiards he brought the balls, scattered when Horemans broke his run, into a position in the corner. He began a run, playing as smoothly as if he were unconscious of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Billiards | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Achilla Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, is surely one of the world's most busy men. Last week especially did he toil in the hushed and shadowy gardens of the Vatican in Rome. A large part of his labor was, to be sure, of a somewhat contemplative variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Papal Week | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Of all recent U. S. diplomatists, none is more conspicuous than Alexander Pollock Moore, the large, hearty, worldly Pittsburgher whom President Harding picked for Ambassador to Spain. When he went to Madrid, Mr. Moore's fame rested on two things-the Pittsburgh Leader, which he had published, and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moore Mystery | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

*A novel (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927), wherein a girl who was reared to be snoopy about sex becomes a cosmopolitan esthete. The soon forgotten fame of The Hard-Boiled Virgin rested on such smart remarks as: "In Georgia, no lady was supposed to know she was a virgin until she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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