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The week's developments apropos of the newly organized National Crime Commission chairmaned by F. Trubee Davison (TIME, Aug. 10, 24):
¶ Ex-Premier George spoke eloquently apropos of the unhappy state of British agriculture. He began by stating that the kingdom imported last year $1,900,000,000 of foodstuffs that could have been grown at home. In 1913, said he, Britain grew 59% of her food; in 1924 only...
¶ What a comrade of Sir William's son, Revere, said, apropos of his death in August, 1917:
Apropos of the recent discussion at Harvard concerning cheer-leading, it is amusing to, note that other universities are finding the matter something of a problem. At the University of Washington, where noise exhorters are known as "yell kings", the proposal is now put forth to select the aspirants for...
Though phonetics is the basis of simplified spelling, the Board has gone by no means as far as one of its oldest members, Melvil Dewey of Lake Placid, N. Y., believes the movement could be carried. Mr. Dewey employs phonetics with painstaking, sometimes cryptic thoroughness. At the Lake Placid Club...