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...Mar. 4, 1927, will end a cycle of 32 years. It began in 1895, when young Congressman Underwood went to Washington. In 1910, when the Democrats, following the fight over the Payne-Aldrich tariff, emerged triumphant in the congressional elections, Mr. Underwood, a seasoned legislator of 15 years' experience, emerged as the majority leader. There followed the Underwood tariff. There followed a bitter fight between Underwood and Bryan in which Underwood came out the victor. There followed a Democratic convention in 1912, when Woodrow Wilson was nominated for President and Oscar W. Underwood, had he not refused it, might...
Lieutenants Joseph M. Kiernan and W. W. Hastings, students of naval architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were the rotorists. Working with discarded materials, they had constructed a craft that differed from the original rotorship of Herr Anton Flettner of Germany (TIME, Nov. 17, Dec. 8, Mar. 2), in two respects: Where Flettner's R. S. Buckau had had two rotor cylinders, the lieutenants used but one, believing they thus avoided a detrimental interaction; where the base and top disc of the Flettner cylinder had revolved, in the U. S. design it was stationary. The motive principle...
...York, N.Y. Mar...
Under Dean Alfred H. Lloyd of her Graduate School as acting president, Michigan University closed her doors without having named a successor to the late Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton, her dead President (TIME, Mar. 2). Never were the educational woods so full of likely timber, yet there was only one rumor of a marked man. That came from James O. Murfin, a regent of the University, and was perhaps more than a rumor. At a Michigan convention, held, last week, at Detroit, Mr. Murfin invited those present to embody in the form of a resolution their sentiments towards Samuel Emory...
Resurrection. On the next day, Mar. 30, the Redemptorists, undismayed, were considering plans for rebuilding the edifice to house the effigy of Ste. Anne. Famed French architects were secured, designs made. In September, 1924, Cardinal Begin laid the cornerstone. The new church will be, it is stated, one of the most exquisite churches in North America. Its length will be 325 ft., its steeples will tower 245ft...