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...69th could not agree on "An Act for the regulation of radio communications"; the short session did. Last week with his signature President Coolidge made the White-Dill bill into law. A commission of five will regulate radio for one year; thereafter the Secretary of Commerce will be acting tsar (TIME...
...usual, the President and his aids were on hand, and legislators aplenty. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis of professional baseball, President E. H. H. Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange, General Pershing and notable sundries provided the lay relief which is necessary to save a Gridiron dinner from becoming mere facetious shop talk among mutually bored familiars...
Circumstances caused him to appear momentarily ridiculous as Philadelphia Director of Public Safety (TIME, Jan. 4, 1926). He resigned from the marines to continue as "Philadelphia Dry Tsar," and at the same time Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia dismissed him. The War Department recognized that General Butler had been the victim of Philadelphia politics and allowed him to withdraw his resignation. His assignment to China is prudent, well-advised, a happy choice...
...noticed some time ago your statement that the Monk Rasputin obtained his influence over the late Tsar and Tsarina by his mysterious healing of the Tsars young son (TIME, Dec. 6). I would like to call your attention to the fact that there are many healers in this country, among the followers of "New Thought,' who can do just as seemingly mysterious things. If you will get a copy of Nautilus published at Holyoke, Mass., you will find many instances of equally mysterious healings. I myself have done as great or even greater healings than that of the Monk Rasputin...
...program, however, was a series of playlets, Scenes From The Lives Of The Romanovs, during which Ivan the Terrible murdered his son, and Catherine the Great had one of her ladies-in-waiting "flogged through the trap."* The high point of the performance was a scene showing the astute Tsar Nicholas I cajoling the revolutionary poet Releyef into betraying his associates in conspiracy. Wrote the dramatic critic of Isvestia: "One came away hating the Romanovs like so many viperous snakes...