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...months lay Drys have been restive under the domination of their cause by such ecclesiastical organizations as the Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. Muffled complaints were made that clerics were always in high command of Prohibition campaigns, that churches were the only rallying places for the 18th Amendment. To secularize the Dry cause became the purpose of Allied Forces. Dr. Poling called it a "new deal." Among its sponsors was no long list of churchmen but such names as Thomas Alva Edison, Gifford Pinchot, Jane Addams, Evangeline Booth, Patrick Henry Callahan, Oliver Wayne Stewart, Raymond Robins...
Those who are in command of the reconstruction here at Yale have it in their power to increase the happiness of the individual student by a large degree and furthermore to enhance the unity of the college if they will take into account in their building program that about one-third of an undergraduate's time is dedicated to respite from labor. Beautiful dormitories, recitation halls, libraries, and athletic fields, while they afford a certain amount of pleasure, they do not in any way appease a certain desire in every human being to get away from things, to go where...
Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski is probably the only musician who could command such consideration from New York City authorities and a great steamship line. But Paderewski has been a figure greatly honored this year. He is 70 and early last season he underwent an appendectomy which seriously threatened to end his career (TIME, Oct. 7, 1929). This year he returned to the U. S. (traveling for the first time without Madame Paderewska who is incurably ill in Switzerland), made a nation-wide concert tour, played 80 concerts to jam-packed houses of people who suspected they were hearing...
After an emergency meeting in the dead of night, Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, Major General James E. Fechet, Chief of Air Corps, and his assistant, Brigadier General Benjamin Delahauf Foulois (in command of the maneuvers) set the armada's schedule back 24 hr. Particularly was this irksome to Secretary Davison. His guest and fellow-observer at the Dayton concentration was his fellow-Yaleman, close friend and sub-cabinet colleague and rival, David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics. Last year Secretary Ingalls put on a whopping good show over New York...
...Berlin, Professor Alfred Lothar Wegener's widow commissioned her brother-in-law, Professor Kurt Wegener, meteorologist, who at once prepared to go to Greenland to take command of the expedition. She told him to leave her husband's body at rest in its frigid tomb...