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Governor Sterling of Texas, the No. 1 cotton State, declared vaguely that he would be glad to "co-operate." When Chairman Stone construed this as an acceptance of his "one-out-of-three" program, the Texas Governor hastened to explain that he favored no specific plan, that it would be "just as reasonable to ask the Farm Board to burn its cotton up as to ask farmers to destroy their crop...
...outset Boss Curry had resisted this inquiry as a piece of partisan politics. As a matter of party duty his Tammany henchmen blocked, balked, thwarted and nullified the committee's efforts to probe the scandals of New York to the bottom. Now Boss Curry was summoned to explain and justify his opposition...
Dean Nardin's fight at Wisconsin always has been based on her conviction that faculty believers in "new liberal principles" in student discipline should explain to the parents of their students exactly what they meant. The preposterous stories you mentioned in your interesting article as having been associated recently with Dean Nardin-that she told girls they should not lean over to drink at water fountains: that they should not "arouse" male students by wearing red dresses or clocked stockings or puckering their red lips-were first raked together in a collection of campus legends in an anonymous fictionized...
...block was no less a prize-or white elephant-than the U. S. Lines, proudest Atlantic fleet in the country. Discussions had been going on slowly for weeks, ever since mid-June when President Paul Wadsworth Chapman and the U. S. Lines' directors went to Washington to explain their troubles to Shipping Board Chairman Thomas Ventry O'Connor (TIME, June...
...Honorable George Lambton, fifth son of the Earl of Durham and trainer of the Earl of Derby's horses, was "frightfully annoyed" last week. He summoned the Press to explain his annoyance. One of the Honorable George's charges, a horse by the name of Caerleon, had just won the Eclipse Stakes. That in itself was all right. But Caerleon has raced frequently this summer-in the Jubilee Stakes and during Ascot week-and not only failed to place but showed such bad form that he went to the post for the Eclipse Stakes quoted...