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Britons had a prime news tidbit to stir with their tea last week: Queen Mary smokes cigarets! London's News-Chronicle found it out. What brand she prefers the News-Chronicle could not say, but smoke she does: one cigaret after lunch, one cigaret after tea, no more...
When President Hoover took Alexander Legge from his $100,000-per-year job as head of International Harvester Co. to make him the $12,000-per-year chairman of the brand new Federal Farm Board, Mr. Legge asked for and got the minimum appointment of one year (TIME, July 15). To Businessman Legge that seemed ample time to set up the $500,000,000 relief machinery authorized by Congress. The year passed. Chairman Legge found that "relieving agriculture" was not the simple direct thing he had anticipated. Husbandmen would not "cooperate" on mere orders from the Board. Commission men fought...
...press proclaimed Professor Meikle john's college a failure and insinuated that the University of Wisconsin authorities had determined to abandon the test school. Recent reports from Madison including Professor Meikle john's own statement on the work of the school since its establishment in 1927, however, brand the rumors of failure as baseless. Far from not being a success, the college which makes a point of studying civilizations rather than the usual curriculum will continue its work. Professor Meikle john is particularly pleased with the solution of the first year study and is hopeful for a proper working...
...quiet on the Southern Front. People who say they know promise a nice little diversion in the shape of a brand new war within a comparatively few years. Mr. Mussolini, is a pessimist with no faith in human nature and with a lot of delusions about the Roman Empire which lie conceives, so Professor Binkley of Smith College reports, as never really having fallen at all but merely experiencing a temporary lapse. The great Roman of modern times, when he is not busy dodging the bullets of eight year old would-be assassins, is occupied not with idealistic notion about...
Displaying a brand of teamwork which made their play almost unbeatable, the West Point riders Saturday downed the Harvard polo team to the tune of 13 to 3, on the field of the Myopia Hunt Club at Hamilton, before a large gathering...