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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Mayor toasted Coolidge. Friday there were receptions at Sul- grave Manor, seat of George Washington's family; an Astor garden party; a reception in Westminster Hall by Lord Haldane and four onetime Lord Chancellors-Birkenhead, Cave, Finlay, Buckmaster. Saturday, Oxford and Cambridge Universities competed with the Naval Review at Spithead for entertainment honors. Brasenose College, Oxford, received payment of a 17-shilling debt entered in its books against Lawrence, father of George Washington. Mr. Hughes issued a formal statement of appreciation: "An abiding memory of venerable institutions . . . inexhaustible kindness . . . new appreciation. . . ." He then, with others, entrained for France...
...Bishop Brown (TIME, June 9), found guilty of heresy by eight good P. E. bishops and true, at Cleveland, May 31, has appealed to a special Court of Review which will meet in October and of which Bishop William A. Leonard of Cleveland is President. The attorneys for the heretic cited 20 "assignments in error"-for example that one of the Bishop-Judges was not a lawful member of the Court, that another was not properly notified. But all this is the merest trivia triviarum. The simple truth is that, if ever there was, or is, or shall...
...reader is more likely to find in this sentence objective evidence of the Times' belief in the broad diversity and superior utility of group control of publications. If the Times occasionally gave similar column-and-a-half treatment to issues of The World's Work, The Yale Review, The American Re-view of Reviews, The Atlantic Monthly, The North American Review, it might easily escape the charge of puffing. In this matter, however, the Times allows itself to be placed in the category of the Hearst press...
...friends of Presidents and Presidential nominees. Consider such publishers as lately have been the friends of statesmen−Colonel George Harvey−Edward Beale McLean. Not such a one is Charles Dana Gibson. In the first place Life differs in the seriousness of its pretentions from the North American Review and The Washington Post. Not that Life is out of politics, because it presumes to smile at it. Life knows politics and takes part in it. Life has played its part in many fields. The least of these may be anti-vivisectionism, the greatest may be international cooperation...
Current Opinion, a U. S. magazine purporting to publish an accurate monthly news review, reproduced in its July issue the portrait of King George V which was exhibited by its creator, Charles Sims, at the Royal Academy, London, in May (TIME...