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...Takamatsu's visit to the U. S. Naval Academy* amnesty for refractory midshipmen* "First time in the history of the U. S. Navy."WRONG, TIME! When benevolent, generous Albert, King of the Belgians, visited the U. S. after the World War, he requested that the Academy's strict regulations of punishment be set aside the day he reviewed the regiment of middies. Several hundred Navy alumni, many TIME readers, remember joyfully King Albert's thoughtfulness...
...check up on Dr. Frank's efficiency if not his Liberalism, Governor La Follette called for a strict accounting of the University's recent record. He lopped large sums from the University budget. After an investigation which went into such things as Dr. Frank's salary ($20,400), his earnings from press-writings (about $20,000) and the salary of Mike, his chauffeur ($2,010), the Legislature restored some of the monies President Frank wanted, but Governor La Follette came off best in the attendant publicity...
...Minister Bellegarde, flustered, protested that he had been misunderstood, misreported. He explained that he had not meant to deny the existence of the fort but merely to state that he had never seen or heard of it because all of its "ill-equipped"' native defenders were killed and a strict news censorship prevailed at the time...
Oklahoma- An old illness of the sick giant lies in the rich Oklahoma City field, now under strict proration. Last week Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. threatened to reopen this wound by seeking an injunction against proration in the field. Often Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair has been accused of leading the price-cutting. Last week his house-organ, the Sinclair Reflector, asked "Who Killed Cock Robin?" and answered that the big oil companies did it by bootlegging oil at cheap prices. "Sinclair did not stoop to subterfuge or practice evasion," said the Reflector...
France eats four times more bread per capita than any other nation. French breadmaking has long been regulated by strict laws. French gourmets have always stood for hand-kneaded bread raised without baking powder. Therefore last week the French Medical Academy faced a grave responsibility, their decision was awaited with a popular interest...