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...satisfied how much revenue the present act will bring in. It may then be made known not as another "Mellon Plan," but be allowed to transpire as the product of the House Ways and Means Committee. In that way, the political consequences, the violent effort of party opponents to destroy anything that savored of the administration's name in the last tax bill, may be partially avoided...
Said the late Willard L. Metcalf, famed artist (TIME, Mar. 23), in his will: "I instruct my executors to destroy any paintings which, in their judgment, they may deem for the best interests of my estate to have destroyed." Accordingly his executors, Architect Charles A. Platt, Illustrator Wallace Morgan, Art Dealer Albert Milch, last week burned 17 pictures which they regarded as below his best standard, set aside 12 others for future destruction. No adolescent attempts, experiments, unfinished work will mar the reputation of Artist Metcalf, as they do the fame of so many artists, musicians, writers...
...social revolution such as occurred a Russia," he said, "would certainly be so panacea for Germany today. I entirely agree with Mr. Nearing that German should be allowed to repudiate her war debts but a social revolution would destroy, temporarily at least, whatever economic stability she has or may attain...
...diffuses her mellow light over the city. To enjoy Venice best, one should take a gondola and be propelled slowly through the narrow canals. Don't take one of those motor driven gondolas, reported to be coming into use. If they are not done away with, they will totally destroy the charm of the city...
Says the Encyclopedia Britannica: "Everywhere, and especially in the interior, the winter lasts very long and early frosts (June 12-14, 1892) often destroy the crops...