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Cast of Characters. Senator Clarence C. Dill of the great State of Washington, 42, genial, round-faced, onetime country school-teacher and newspaper reporter, famed as co-author of the scheme which controls radio throughout the land (TIME, Feb. 21), a sort of busybodied Herbert Hoover among Democrats...
Like stern proconsuls* of Imperial Rome, four Italian Colonial Governors make almost 2,000,000 natives smart with commands backed by steel. Two† of the four colonies have no native parliaments; and the other two** seemed about to lose theirs last week. At Rome the doom of every sort of native autonomy in Italian Colonies was sealed when Colonial Minister Luigi Federzoni published, last week, the text of a law approved for enactment by Dictator Benito Mussolini...
What Mary Means to Catholics: As Mary-veneration grew, from the 6th Century on, Roman Catholics felt more and more that her peculiar relation to the Godhead fitted her especially as a sort of kindly mother before whom unworthy sinners might lay their prayers with the best hopes of a successful intervention with the "remote and awful Godhead." In early times, St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople called her "the only bridge of God to man." Even John Wyclif, pre-Reformation "heretic" said: "It seems impossible to me that we should obtain the reward of heaven without the help of Mary...
Harvard has had more of its share of troubles lately what with the Browning trial and the Nicaraguan question, and therefore when the Boston Post (not Emily Post because Emily is above that sort of thing) turns savagely on this institution and says that Harvard men are responsible for the way Radcliffe girls, dress--well, then, things, as Red Grange used to remark, have come to a pretty pass. Not but that the young ladies at Radcliffe don't wear fetching rigs--ah no, no indeed. There are few more charming sights than to see them flooding into the Cooperative...
...pity that muek-raking of this sort cannot be controlled. The only thing which might make the survey of any value to socioligists and others having a legitimate interest in the subject has been left out--a comparison of derelictions in student life compared with those outside. It is plainer than ever before that this publication is using the colleges as fair game for creating an illusion of gilded sin, just as magazines of an earlier age created the myths of "high society...