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Meanwhile, alert lawmakers, who keep little notebooks, began to list the questions which Congress ought to solve within the next year. A peek into such a notebook revealed the following entries: Prohibition enforcement legislation which General Lincoln C. Andrews is demanding, McFadden-Pepper Branch Banking bill, radio regulation bill, alien property settlement, Muscle Shoals leasing or sale, railroad consolidation, government shipping business, national waterways and the Great Lakes dispute (TIME, Nov. 22), action on Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report on the Philippines (see p. 8), Lausanne Treaty, ratification or rejection of the Berenger-Mellon French debt pact, farm...
...recall its reporter from Aiken. Governor Thomas G. McLeod of South Carolina also implied that the World articles are causing hostility to his own investigation, but he has offered to protect the World reporter from any Klan violence. Another actor in the Aiken episode is Senator Cole Blease, alert blatherskite, who last week announced that he would defend Aiken County against damage suits which are to be brought by relatives of the Lowman Negroes...
...original schedule. Doremus & Co.'s president, Economist Clarence Walker Barren, was pleased, advertised on his own account the arch-service of his office. C. W. Barron is the head of his profession-financial journalism- the biggest man in it, anywhere. Wherever there are bankers, investment salesmen and alert businessmen, there he is known. Few keep business secrets from...
...instant. Harvard now had its back to the wall, and a moment later Captain Coady tried to kick from his 25-yard streak. The Crimson line buckled; Richards, Yale tackle, took the ascending pigskin on his chest, and the ball rolled across the goal line, where the alert Sturhahn pounced on it for the score. This sudden fall from the heights in a few plays stunned the Crimson stands, and intimated the part that the big toe was to play in the drama that followed...
FIGURES OF THE PAST-Josiah Quincy-Little, Brown ($4). These chronicles well bear periodic repub-lication.-Their author was as alert in his late seventies as he had been in his youth when, graduated by Harvard at 19 (class of 1821), he entered the front ranks of military, political and private society in "our somewhat stiff and exclusive city," Boston. He became a mayor of that city, like his father before him and his grandson later, but writing in his age, he found more meat in his youthful journals than in the official acts of his public career. Sunday, Sept...