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With the experts of the Second Dawes Committee on the verge of reaching an agreement on revising reparations, Dr. Albert Vögler, second-in-command of the German delegation, suddenly resigned...
President Lowell completed twenty years last week as President of Harvard and we find in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin an appreciative summing-up of his accomplishments during the period. President Lowell's leading interest when he assumed command in 1909 was in quality of performance. With this key to his administration one can follow Harvard's progress since then to the institution that it is today. Socially he has worked during these ten years towards an all-around undergraduate life which began with good conditions for the Freshmen, carried through the athletic and other student interests, and came...
Despite this catharsis, Mexico's army still will not lack for generals. There were 350 of them at the beginning of the revolution, and only four got killed. So 291 are left to command an army...
Douglas Fairbanks, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, presided in Los Angeles last week when the Academy's annual prizes were awarded. Among the winners : Acting - Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven) ; Emil Jannings (The Way of All Flesh, The Last Command) ; Directing - Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven) ; Engineering Effects - Roy Pomeroy (Wings) ; Outstanding Picture - Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. (Wings). Charles Chaplin was specially rewarded for being writer, actor, director, producer of The Circus...
...beautiful stage setup. The Brown Derby has gone over the hill in defeat and, with it, the influence of a "New" Tammany in New York Democratic politics. No longer are there fatherly scoldings from Albany, stern advice to "cut the nonsense and get to work." Mayor Walker, in full command, has placed his own man, John Francis Curry, at the head of Tammany Hall (TIME, May 6). Only one issue has really stirred the sluggish depths of New York's electorate-the price it must pay for a subway ride. Mayor Walker won that issue when...