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...trying to bring England and America together. In order to accomplish this purpose, he argued, the propagandists tried to make the American people sorry that they had revolted, and thus to bring back this country into the British Empire. It was therefore necessary, Mr. Hirshfield explained, for them to alter the popular conception of the Revolution and to make it less antagonistic to Great Britain. All of the eight books, he pointed out, have been written or revised since that time during the Great War when this pro-British propaganda first raised its head...
...material at his disposal, he was faced with the problem of teaching his own methods to a group of men who, for the most part, had previously been drilled in at least two different systems of rowing, Coach Muller has had less than nine months in which to alter radically the rowing of every man on the squad...
...some ambiguity as to whether the angles of guns could legitimately be changed. When it was believed that the British were doing so, no objection was made here, but when the British Government issued an official denial, question was raised by Congressmen and others of our right to alter our guns...
...tonight at the Concord town hall at 8.15 o'clock under the auspices of the Concord Academy. The Glee Club will be led by J. C. McDonald, who was elected leader last Wednesday night, and the Instrumental Club will be directed by Winthrop Wetherbee Jr. There will be dancing alter the performance...
...prospects of tax reductions are remote. The day following the Cabinet meeting Senators Watson and Smoot, heir-presumptive to the chairmanship of the Finance Committee, called at the White House. They oppose any attempt to alter the present tax law at the next session of Congress. Senator Smoot expressed his sympathy with the President's suggestion, but regarded it as " premature." The anxiety of the two Senators is obviously due to the political unwisdom of such a move. If any tax measure is brought up in Congress, it would fall among "radicals," as pointed out in TIME last week...