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...Philippine Legislature, packed with politicos dedicated to independence from the U. S., sat for the first time. As custom requires, Governor General Dwight Filley Davis appeared before a joint session of the House and Senate to deliver his legislative message. He was heard in stony silence and allowed to depart without applause. He had dared to affront all politicos by suggesting that they drop politics and take up economics for a change...
Enter Madame Doumer?as the statesmen depart. This good lady declined last week to move at once into the Elysée. By her actions, not by words, she showed that she thought M. Doumergue during his six years and 117 months of bachelor residence at the Elysée had been about as good a housekeeper as most bachelors...
...brilliant seasons seen at Harvard for a good many years behind it, the University crew broke practice yesterday for a three-day interval before the squad entrains for Red Top on Sunday. Leaving South Station tonight at 11 o'clock, the third University and the first 150-pound crew depart for Philadelphia in a special...
...University, Professor Ripley declared: "Such a Cabinet official would have just the prestige and authority to enforce discipline on the rail industry that it needs." Under the Ripley plan the administrative functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission (locomotive inspection, accident investigation, safety equipment orders) would be transferred to the Department of Transportation while the I. C. C.'s judicial work (rate-making, valuation, corporate finance) would be left as an independent function. Other governmental activities which could logically be transferred to the Secretary of Transportation would include the Alaska R. R. (from Interior Department), civil aeronautics, steamboat inspection, lighthouses...
...relief work, while S.L. Batchelder '31 is to be the starting backstop. Of the nine men, starting, all but one are lettermen, a fact that may lend an element of coordination which indoor practice has not allowed. With a veteran battery available, it is also possible that Mitchell will depart from his usual custom of working two pitchers four or five innings in the opening game, and will have Devens go the entire distance...