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...Michigan commission searched for the rest of the lost bodies. With the greatest difficulty 86 were found; eleven were left in France. Russian peasants were hostile, had to be bribed to reveal each grave. One town the Soviet Government, cooperating with the U. S., threatened to plow up in toto unless its inhabitants gave up the U. S. dead. In another case a Russian woman had nursed, fallen in love with and then buried a wounded U. S. officer. First she tried to misguide the searchers from the grave. When they found it by an ikon and paper flowers...
Brown-"The report is in part false and in toto so misleading. ..." New York University-"[Our] athletics are in control of the faculty and they keep [our] sport clean." President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth-"I pass the report over as inconsequential at this time." Football Coach William Winston Roper of Princeton-"In ten years of coaching I've never made an effort to recruit a schoolboy athlete." Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes of Columbia: "We at Columbia College have no athletic scholarships...
Many a modern parent is beset by the problem of the daily newspaper. The parent cannot re-edit the newspaper-he must prohibit it for his children, in toto if at all. But classic literature can be edited-although as to how it shall be edited parents violently disagree. Discussion now turns chiefly on the following examples of Sunday School editing...
...closed at Paris (TIME, May 13. et seq.) when the Young plan was drafted by the countries' foremost financiers. In presenting their handiwork to European statesmen. Owen D. Young and his colleagues described it as "an indivisible whole," declared that to be workable it must be adopted in toto as drafted. Last week the declaration of a Morgan, a Young, a Schacht was simply sneered at by Laborite Snowden. In homely Yorkshire fashion he referred to the Young Plan as a "sponge cake" in need of being recarved. For Britain a bigger piece of sponge cake...
...Emanuele had conferred upon the writer of this the Order of Knighthood in the Order of the Crown of Italy for his paintings of Rome, and being thereby (and not perhaps, unnaturally) somewhat overcome, I ventured to share the news with TIME. That you should ignore the matter "in toto" is perhaps not surprising, and it is, of course, quite within your rights, and your admirable magazine is, in the writer's estimation, none the worse for the omission. GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS...