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...conversion of the late great William Howard Taft from Wet to Dry was the high spot of last week's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, sitting in judgment on measures to modify or repeal national Prohibition.† In 1918 Mr. Taft, as Yale's Kent Professor of Law, was an avowed Wet. He wrote letters, later widely quoted, to his friend, Allen Lincoln of New Haven, opposing the 18th Amendment, predicting dire results from its ratification (TIME, Oct. 15, 1928). In 1923, as Chief Justice, he made a Yale commencement speech in which he called...
...edits upon the statement that no college daily has upon its staff men sufficiently informed of the ins and outs of the question to do more than express an opinion qualified by admitted ignorance upon certain portions of the evidence. Such an opinion is worth no more than the judgment of the men who form it and can be accepted for no more, no less. We realize that admitted ignorance has a tendency to diminish the value of expression in the eyes of those who prefer to be told in positive terms what they should and should not think...
...owned any public utility stock. Mr. Thacher submitted a list of his holdings: 100 shares American & Foreign Power Corp.; 55 shares of Baltimore's Consolidated Gas & Electric; 100 shares Electric Power & Light Corp.; 400 shares National Power & Light Co. Judiciary Committee Chairman Norris wrote Nominee Thacher: "In the judgment of the committee you ought to divest yourself of the securities mentioned." Mr. Thacher sold them all at the market, so informed Chairman Norris, who replied: "Your prompt compliance with the wishes of the committee will be highly satisfactory." Promptly, unanimously the Judiciary Committee approved the Thacher appointment, advised...
...Twentysix out of 31 university presidents in this country say that student drinking is not general. . . . With due respect for the judgment of those presidents, we cannot help feeling that their opinion is of slight value unless checked by facts. And so far as Yale is concerned, the News proposes to have a look at the facts...
When Louisine Waldron Elder of Philadelphia was a small speculative girl in pigtails she carefully hoarded her pennies and bought a picture from elegant, irascible James A. McNeill Whistler. So impressed was Whistler with little Louisine's good judgment that he gratefully sent her copies of several of his etchings. That was the beginning of the collection exhibited last week. Years later Louisine met and married another collector, the late Henry Osborne Havemeyer, potent sugarman, President of American Sugar Refining Co. It was no longer necessary to save pennies. Together they wandered about the world, buying magnificently...