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...which was promptly refused. A decade later, President Wilson negotiated a $25,000,000 indemnity treaty with Colombia, but the U. S. Senate refused to comply. Finally, in President Harding's administration, the Senate ratified the treaty, after striking out an apology to Colombia included in the original draft. Last week, the U. S. Treasury dispatched $5,000,000 to Colombia to pay the last installment of the indemnity. Historians turned over to the next chapter...
...Composer Deems Taylor and Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, were commissioned to contrive an all-native opera. The music is finished; Deems Taylor is in Europe. And last week came news that, despite the ravages of a long illness, the pale and slender young librettist had finished a first draft of her end of the work. She had begun it in her Greenwich Village home ("narrowest house in Manhattan"), abandoned it during a breakdown, lately brought it to completion at a retreat in the woods of Maine. A lightsome, fanciful opera this Henchman will surely be, judging by the quality...
...reconstruction of Chicago is rich, racy but redundant. Splendid characters and material are worn down by overuse of the catalog sentence, repetition of scenes. Nevertheless, the material and characters are splendid; the theme broad, native. Gathered speed at the narratives end puts Show Boat over the sandbars-a deep-draft, beamy vessel; a gorgeous excursion. The Author. Edna Ferber, pride of Kalamazoo, Mich., where she was born 39 years ago, and at Appleton, Wis., whose public schools she attended, lives beside Central Park nowadays, a national celebrity since 1912 or so, when her stories began appearing regularly in the magazines...
Since 1924 the League of Nations Temporary Slavery Commission has been collecting slave-data. At the September League session (TIME, Sept. 21), the Commission submitted a report; and the League Assembly passed a resolution favoring a "Draft Slavery Convention" or international anti-slavery concordat...
Some hundreds of curious-minded peasants streamed into the little town of Mosbach last week to attend the trial of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, famed Philadelphia draft dodger, who was arrested (TIME, Feb. 22) on a charge of having seduced, three years ago, Fraulein Leisel Schmidt, Heidelberg schoolgirl, then...