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...trial for Anglomania of School Superintendent William McAndrew of Chicago (TIME, Oct. 17 EDUCATION) dragged on. The Mayor's censor of history books, Urbine J. ("Sport") Herrman, heavy-jowled theatre owner and yachtsman, continued to examine the contents of the Chicago Public Library (which Queen Victoria helped build) for pro-British propaganda. Public Librarian Carl B. Boden, President of the American Library Association, quailed before the mayoral authority, fearing for his $11,000 per annum job. But citizens forestalled by injunction a public burning of the books Mr. Herrman "suspected." The press ridiculed "Chicago's Dayton" and called...
...avail. When the "old man" on Boar's Hill heard about it, he said unpoetically: "I don't give a damn!" When the public heard that, it rather liked it. and settled down to like Dr. Bridges, just as it had settled down to like Queen Victoria after decades of indecorous criticism...
...addition M. Manoilescu carried a letter from the prince to his mother, Dowager Queen Marie, who was reported to have been greatly angered when informed that M. Bratino had dared to open it. Also, he was alleged to have with him a photostat of a document signed by his late father, King Ferdinand, in which it is said that the monarch advised M. Bratiano to recall Carol if he showed signs of being worthy of trust...
Rumors. Many rumors circulated. One was that Prince Stirbey, great and good friend of Dowager Queen Marie, had several times carried letters for her to Paris...
...Queen who sat beside Alice and yelled, "Faster, faster!" sits beside most automobile drivers of to-day and her call is no less potent because it is a silent one. The theory, if not the practice, of the idea that travel in the street is the right of the pedestrian and the privilege of the motorist has often been iterated. In an entire nation of increasingly nimble broken field runners there will be found few more ardent supporters of this civic principle than those members of Harvard College who are daily obliged to cross Harvard Square...