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...TIME entered the market with a new sophistication process? I refer to the recent Quiz section. Or have the Editors carried over collegiate quiz-taking habits and now wish to paternalize their helpless readers? There are too many vital and pertinent items of news interest for your able but caustic causerie to permit a column and more for the self-improvement guild. Most of us are delighted and edified by the rest of your scintillating columns. We deplore such an unnecessary attempt to dictate a more careful reading. Has not TIME an audience sufficiently alert and curious and discriminating...
Charles G. Dawes appeared last week in the role of a stickler for Senate rules. In the Chamber senators are supposed to address themselves only to the Chair and to refer to One another in the third person. The press has noted of late that there has been some laxity in this respect. But last week Senator Watson was asking a question of Senator Fess. Senator Watson's desk is in the front row, third from the centre aisle. Senator Fess' desk is in the fourth (rear) row, eighth from the aisle (nearly directly behind Mr. Watson's because...
...Does anyone seriously believe that a jury can remember all the statements made by witnesses for six weeks? When men as bright as Mr. Williams have to refer to their notes all the time when discussing the case, how are we supposed to remember every word when we have no notes? Today I asked them to let us have a transcript of the evidence so that we could read it, and refresh our recollection of what was said. Did we get it? We did not. It isn't according to practice, or something like that. There is objection...
...could not easily dispose of them to the civilian trade. The selling price would have been considerably below the Government contract rate, at which Swift & Co. had keyed their packing operations. The General realized Swift's fairness and willing co-operation throughout the War stress, yet had to refer money adjustment to a Court of Claims; told the company to sell the bacon at the best rates possible. This they did, at $1,077,386.30 below what the Government would have paid them if the bacon had been bought for War purposes...
...London editors refer to Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain as "Monsieur...