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What the sentence consisted of was "reduction of four numbers in grade," meaning that Colonel Williams now stands No. 22 instead of No. 18 in the queue of Colonels waiting to be made Brigadier Generals. He will have to wait in line about six months or a year more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Reduced | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

U. S. Proposals. Mr. Gibson's speech was couched in general terms prudently chosen to convey his meaning without rubbing Continental sensibilities the wrong way. He keynoted the Administration's disarmament policy on four points:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: At Geneva | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

In 1915, just before Boy-Ed was recalled to Germany at the request of the State Department, the U. S. Secret Service intercepted a German cable addressed to him which read: "YOU MAY MARRY TIRPITZ." Puzzled, U. S. cryptographic experts toiled over these four words, failed to extract a meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Is Boy-Ed Coming? | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

"Project" Studies. The article was from Dr. Glenn Frank, who has spent the past year studying at first hand the problems of a modern mammoth state institution, the University of Wisconsin, for whose presidential chair he left a cosy editor's desk on the Century magazine (TIME, May 25...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wedlock | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

The study of the classics was crippled if not killed by classroom pedants who forgot the meaning of the classic literature in their absorption in the minutiae of the classic languages. Did William James have this in mind when he said to F. C. S. Schiller that "the natural one...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT FRANK OF WISCONSIN--WRITES OF THE REVOLT AGAINST EDUCATION, SAYING LATTER SUFFERS FROM BEING OVERLOADED | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

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