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...longer the black-eyed, hoydenish Carmen or the pale, forsaken Butterfly, there is a tendency for many to regard her as a singer of bygone days. That Farrar still sings, however, that she still pursues an active career was proved by last week's account of a season's stewardship. She has covered a 21,000-mile concert tour which began in Manhattan, went through Canadian cities, through Manhattan again to Chicago, the Pacific Coast, back through the South. Often she gave three concerts a week, sometimes two a day. Last week fatigued, she arrived in Manhattan from New Orleans...
...Cross (of which the President is president) and of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mr. Hoover holds that excessive time and energy are spent in preparing material for such speeches. Two or three addresses a year, he hopes, will suffice to keep the country informed of his stewardship...
...commonplace that there has been for the past few years at Harvard a tendency to reduce course requirements and to place academic responsibility upon the student without demanding too frequent accounts of his stewardship. But in the midst of this movement there still remain a few courses which, in their irritating insistence upon periodical reckonings, are out of step with the times. Such a one, for example, is History 12. Here quizzes of the type given Freshman sections in elementary courses follow one another at fortnightly intervals; when there is no quiz, there is a short paper to be written...
Last summer, not a little political capital was made-by Republicans as a warning against change, by Democrats as evidence of bad stewardship-out of a report from the Budget Bureau that fiscal 1929 might show a deficit of 94 millions. President Coolidge now announced that the outlook was for a surplus of some 37 millions. Neither of these figures is very near the $252,540,283 surplus which was estimated for 1929 in the President's Budget message last December. Last week the President explained that the discrepancy was due rather to increased expenditures than to decreased revenues...
Plowing through mountains of statistics, but enlivening his discourse with a running undercurrent of wit and a few sly I-told-you-so's, M. Poincare presented an 18-month record of brilliant financial stewardship which no other living statesman can match. He has saved the franc from what seemed irretrievable decline, raised and stabilized it de facto at 25 to the dollar, drastically reduced the French internal debt, and accomplished all this without recourse to foreign credits and without having to secure ratification of the (in France) intensely unpopular Franco-U. S. debt settlement...