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...advance, to give the pictures negative advertising, which no doubt influences many to stay away from an evening's enjoyment for them. . . . Don't bother to look for my name on your list of subscribers as it isn't there, for I am continually on the move and find it much easier to pick one up somewhere each week, than to bother trying to have one trail me, but I haven't missed reading one in ages, and don't intend...
...restless. Washington wiseacres interpreted the Smoot-Mellon "delay" as an adroit political shift by the Administration to chastise those business groups (notably the U. S. Chamber of Commerce) which have been urging a far larger tax cut than Secretary Mellon thinks safe. It was also interpreted as a move to put anti-Administration senators on the defensive for the action of their colleagues in the House, who wrote a tax-cut 65 millions larger than the Treasury advised...
...novelty for the American college to make such definite adjustment to the secondary school's preparation, but Mohammed had shown no signs of coming to the mountain, and the mountain must needs move. In examinations for college the I. Q. and the scholastic aptitude test have their place, but none of these tell whether the freshman possesses a knowledge of note taking and a scholarly disclaim of the historical anecdote. The plan of the University of Buffalo at least prepares the unequipped before their hour is at hand...
Having got into their chamber, the Senators invited the Representatives to come and meet there too. Governor Johnston blocked this move with his guardsmen. Back to the Huckins Hotel went the irate Representatives, to add "moral turpitude" to their list of Governor Johnston's crimes. Specifically, he was supposed to have conferred with Mrs. Hammonds, his secretary, in a hotel bedroom after 2 a. m. one morning. Also to have lived with his wife in a two-family house of which Mrs. Hammonds and her husband occupied half...
...Lowden. "The next move will be Lowden's withdrawal," said observers, who already considered hopeless the undeclared ambitions of Frank Orren Lowden, famed Illinois economist, lawyer, farmer, businessman and onetime (1917-21) Governor. Mr. Lowden's friends claimed last week that he was already assured of 425 of the 545 delegates necessary for his nomination...