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...Press), Democrat Arthur P. Dennis (new member of the Tariff.Commission). Their ship went a little out to sea in preparation for a possible June cruise to the summer White House at Swampscott, Mass. ¶Mrs. Ethel Barrymore Colt paid an hour's call on Mrs. Coolidge, then chatted a bit with the President. ¶Mrs. Coolidge set to work on the $50,000 repairing of the White House. The Green Room has faded, must be done over. The elevator, plumbing, vacuum-cleaning system must be modernized. Floors must be painted, rugs replaced. From the storehouse Mrs. Coolidge brought forth...
Fifteen minutes remained before the U. S. Supreme Court closed for the day. Solicitor General Beck, a bit snappish, a trifle overworked, was ready with another case. On behalf of the U. S., he appealed against the decision of the Federal District Court of Western Missouri which upheld the right of the Kansas City Journal-Post to publish lists of income-tax payments...
...this was written by Hatcher Hughes, last year's winner of the Pulitzer play prize with Hell-Bent for Heaven. Mr. Hughes spends vacations among these Southerners. It seemed in this play that he had glorified them just a trifle. Their humor is a bit too sharp, their characters a bit intensified. Yet the novelty, the philosophy and the intelligence of the piece makes it better than most. It is endowed with an uneven performance...
Manhattan and even extra-Manhattan newspapers have devoted to the Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, space with an advertising value of perhaps $1,000,000. Most of the space has been filled with the pastor's (Dr. John Roach Straton) denunciation of infidel Modernists. But a good bit has been consumed by the long-mooted plan for leasing the church property for a combination hotel-church...
...great ado over systems, schedules, requirements, and examinations. The real educators are these young men, and most of them know it. Like young plants, they are building up their world from within and getting themselves adjusted to it just now, they are browsing about, picking up a precious bit of truth here in a lecture, there in a book, or yonder among their fellows. Our job is to give them a shock now and then and stimulate the endogenous development that each one must supervise for himself. That is all we can do, and when we try to do more...