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...from the Little Theatre movement, and allowing the interested student a training ground for practical play-writing and production, the School has completely served its purpose. The Carnegie endowment is significant not only in the fact that it strengthens the Cambridge School of the Drama, but also as a non-partisan sign of the permanence of the movement itself...
Died. Wallace Mcllvaine Scudder, 77, founder and publisher since 1883 of the Newark, N. J. Evening News, philanthropist, onetime engineer, attorney, grandfather of Dorothea Scudder who married U. S. Tennis Champion John Hope Doeg last month (TIME, Feb. 9); of heart disease; in Newark. A liberal, non-partisan journalist who built up his paper's influence by the force of his own personality, he was a relic of journalism's "old school": Whitelaw Reid, Charles Anderson Dana, Joseph Pulitzer, Henry Watterson, James Gordon Bennett...
Lord Willingdon is acceptable to the non-partisan mass of the British public because of his obvious fitness for the job. Long, lean, after his able service through the War as Governor of Bombay (Bombay was headquarters for the ill-fated British Mesopotamia expedition) he was appointed Governor of Madras. British papers announced that it was "a foregone conclusion" that he would be next Viceroy of India. Something went wrong, Lord Reading, a fellow-Liberal, got the job. In 1926 Lord Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams...
...their lungs to "punch" Lindsey, to "lynch him" is only slightly amusing to the cynic. More pleasing was the image of the battered advocate of companionate marriage, who is sincere if nothing else, being snatched from the rioters by four burly detectives. Howis of glee must attend the non-partisan when he reads that this formally attired herd docilely returned to their pews, no longer menaced by the black sheep, sand "Fight the Good Fight" and then shouted "God bless Bishop Manning!" The Church Militant...
Just before the election a non-partisan research council at Columbia University issued a survey report on Maine elections back to 1874 which seriously qualified the political saying "As Maine goes, so goes the Nation." By complex statistics the council showed that Maine's "off-year' voting erred by an average of 20 House seats as an index of the November election...