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...Joint concerts with other clubs after being tentatively planned by the university singers for next year. An effort was made to arrange a joint concert with the University of Pennsylvanian Glee Club this year...
Just before Christmas, Governor Smith of New York State launched an investigation of President Connolly's sewer system (TIME, Jan. 2). The system consisted, allegedly, in President Connolly's appointment of a special city engineer who specified a certain type of lock-joint pipe for Queens sewers. The sole local agent for the required pipe was President Connolly's good friend, one John M. Phillips. Monopolist Phillips sat back in his office swigging milk and whiskey, dictating pipe prices to contractors, growing rich. Borough President Connolly did not grow any poorer...
...released from the bondage of maternal adoration, would yield to his Debonair if only she were at hand. How to get to England? A convenient husband is traveling home alone, with a Victorian man-and-wife passport. Loveday persuades him to let her impersonate the better half of the joint document, but Italian border officials find her far too beautiful for the alleged likeness, even with allowances for its being a passport picture. Loveday is detained in disgrace, only to be accused by the pictured wife of eloping with her Victorian husband...
From the founding of Agro-Joint in 1924 up to the present year, it has loaned out more than $3,000,000 to Jewish farmers in Soviet Russia and spent more than $400,000 in educating them in modern agricultural methods. The new subscription which was announced by Philanthropist Rosenwald, last week, will so broaden the work of Agro-Joint that it will merge into a new corporation to be founded for Jewish land settlement in Russia...
...York Philharmonic Orchestra is the oldest musical organization in the U. S. It was founded in 1842. Only the London Philharmonic, founded in 1813, anteceded it in the world. Mr. Mackay is its chairman, Arturo Toscanini its director, Willem Mengelberg of Amsterdam its joint leader...