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...other members will be Miss E. R. Abbot of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, as a lecturer on the history and appreciation of painting and sculpture, Mr. J. C. Tidden of Rice Institute, Texas, as instructor in painting and lecturer on the fine arts from the standpoint of the creative artist, and others whose names will be announced later...
...invidious work known as the ex-Kaiser's War Memoirs. It is impossible to escape from the logic of M. Viviani's scathing denunciation of the ex-Kaiser's tacit inculpation in the events which preceded the world-wide cataclysm. The author has written this book from the traditional standpoint of a French nationalist. There is no screen to impartiality. The object is to prove first of all the ex-Kaiser's guilt and then the incrimination of high personages in Germany in the dishonorable plot to force war on the world. M. Viviani not only accomplishes what he sets...
From the President's standpoint, however, it would be decidedly unwise. Mark Sullivan, able Washington correspondent of The New York Tribune, says: " There have been few things that hurt the Administration so much as the disclosure that liquor was being sold on the ships owned and operated by the United States Shipping Board." The President ordered that to cease some time ago, and now to rescind that order would be to open himself once more to criticism...
...some quarters the decision is called a victory for Secretary of State Hughes, who was supposed to be opposed to increasing the angle of the guns because it might lead to diplomatic difficulties. From a political standpoint, at least, the move is very adroit, because it relieves the Administration of any grounds for an accusation that it had obtained an appropriation under false pretenses-an accusation which there is already evidence that certain Congressmen would make. Now Congress must decide the question at its next session...
Particularly did Mr. Ford condemn the present tendency of manufacturers to scramble for men and materials by bidding up commodity prices and wages, as not only unsound from the individual manufacturer's standpoint, but dangerous to the continuance of present prosperity. He characterized the prevalent desire to "do two years' business in one " as " killing the goose" and he stated that, although the Ford Company had orders to make 10,000 cars a day, he " did not propose to strain his production facilities by such methods...