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After two months of the hardest, most spectacular work, General Johnson was beginning to get his second wind. His health was a matter of national concern; if he cracked, the whole NRA campaign might go under. His eyes were swollen from lack of sleep. Flashlamps were making him flinch. His temper was running short. President Roosevelt had to command him to get a night's sleep when he flew to Hyde Park fortnight ago (TIME, August 14). Even the fatherly New York Times last week advised him to "ease...
...left Illinois. An unnamed friend turned over $50,000 to some unnamed men in an automobile, reputedly at Hinsdale, western Chicago suburb. After twelve days in captivity. Factor was released at La Grange, 111., three blocks from the police station. His clothes were disheveled, his beard long, his eyes swollen from their tape bandages. He tottered into the station house and asked for whiskey. He said that guns had been poked in his back, shears snipped threateningly under his ears. "I was treated like a dog. The bed they gave me was infested. They called me every vile and filthy...
Singing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House leaves many a tenor with a swollen head but Tenor Tito Schipa who lately finished his first season there was left with swollen tonsils. He sped to Los Angeles where last week Surgeon Edward Russell Kellogg proceeded to remove them, to adjust, as he said. Tenor Schipa's "epiglottal space." Six weeks will pass before the operation's results will be known but then Dr. Kellogg hopes that Schipa will find the range of his voice higher by two or four notes...
...President-elect is besieged by an army of applicants. His mail is swollen with local recommendations for "deserving" partisans. Each & every likely candidate must first be investigated because a President is held personally responsible for the character and calibre of any man he puts in office. Thus a President-elect gets his first idea of the awful magnitude of the four-year job ahead...
...Carnegie Foundation's recent report on college admissions presents a solution to the problem which, while it is new, is very much experimental. Taking the stand that "the swollen and unwholesome concern with mere admission to college" is greatly over-emphasized, the Foundation objects to both certification and admission by examination as criterions of a student's eligibility to enter college. Instead, the report recommends "a true chart and record of the pupil's activities" to show his fitness for further study, and to give an indication of the most suitable field for him. In addition tests are suggested...