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Then came 1922. There was a split in the regular Republican machine, and Mr. Pinchot-who would believe it?-was elected Governor. He gave Pennsylvania a budget system, trimmed the sails of expenditure and set out to put the State on a sound financial basis. He reorganized the State Government and cut the number of departments and bureaus from more than 100 to 18. He also went out to enforce prohibition...
...Leon Blum and the Socialists to force a definite expression of the "capital levy" (TIME, Nov. 16 et ante) into the bill. Nominally the Painlevé Government is "supported" by the Radical-Socialists, the so-called cartel des Gauches, nominally headed by M. Herriot. Actually M. Blum split off with his Socialists a fortnight ago and had the Government at his mercy, because without his votes Premier Painlevé could not command a majority in the Chamber...
After a two years lapse, in 1919, games were again scheduled, but in the past war period it has been with increasing difficulty that the University has held its own. In the last six meetings, the two elevens have split even, each having a string of three successive wins to its credit. Saturday's meeting thus becomes the rubber match for the post war series...
...Tuesday the election was all Nichols. For a time it seemed that Glynn, the candidate of the Curley faction, and O'Neil, the regular Democratic nominee, might give him a close run. But the Irish vote was badly split, while Cook and McGauley and Burrill, Republicans running to take votes from Nichols, received almost no support at the polls Mr. Nichols received 64,484 votes, with Glynn, his nearest opponent, gathering only 42,696 votes...
...that he had perfected a set of mirror-scales capable of weighing, distinctly and faithfully, down to one 280-billionth of an ounce. Gossamer quartz filaments balance the scales, the slightest titillation of which is reflected from their gold-mirrored surfaces by a ray of light. The ray is split by two half-mirrors, being reunited on the scale-mirrors, where any disparity between the wavelengths of the reunited portions is clearly seen as shadow bands. Thus, when the object weighed (1/29,000 oz. of quartz filament) is lightened by the pull of sun or moon, the scale tips...