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...appear in "The Bookshelf" are done by members of the faculty as well as undergraduate critics. No attempt is made to cover the whole field of contemporary literature, but those works which are treated are only such as the editors feel have something more than mere ephemeral worth to recommend them...
...money in dye-buying. And each different product helps the rest to sell, since "ensembles" must be thoroughgoing. The U. S. gentlemen politely notify the Paris arbiters of their decision by sending over generous "samples," which the thrifty Parisians can easily sell for cash. In return, the Paris arbiters recommend the new color-of-the-season...
...Association, which voices professional contempt for Macfaddism, commented: "Possibly . . . this is just a start and we may later find the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce considering the question of abandoning the name of 'Golden Gate' for 'Albert Abrams Bay.' Los Angeles businessmen might very properly recommend changing the name of Santa Monica Mountains to the 'I-on-a-co Mountains' in honor of their late-lamented citizen, Gaylord Wilshire. The conception has infinite possibilities. Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga might readily be called 'Mount Cardui,' while Nahant Bay (off Lynn, Mass.) could...
Witness MacDonald, wandering waiter, had been found in Baltimore and sent to California by the Mooney-Billings defense to admit his perjury after the Supreme Court refused last month to recommend a pardon for Billings (TIME, July 21). In 1916 he told trial juries that he had seen Billings and Mooney with a suitcase, presumably containing the bomb, at the street corner where occurred the explosion that killed ten persons. Last week before the Supreme Justices he swore that he had seen neither of them there, that, in fact, he was not sure if he had really witnessed the bombing...
...only by upping the first class postage rate from 2¢ per oz. to 2½¢ could his department be put on a paying basis. Not since 1919 when the 3¢ war rate was abolished have U. S. citizens paid more than 2¢ per letter. The Postmaster General prepared to recommend to Congress legislation for this rate increase...