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...first matter on the agenda will be a stiff test of the new President's power. The accredited Ministers to China resident in Peking protested last week against Foreign Secretary Wellington Koo's reply to their note of last August (TIME, Aug. 20, Oct. 8), wherein he stated that the bandit episode of last May was not directed primarily against foreigners. The Diplomats renewed their demands on the Chinese Government and stated...
Small wonder attention is being given to the commercial possibilities of such craft. Commander Frank McCrary, skipper of the ZR1, sees " a revolution in transportation technique." Captain Anton Heinen, German test pilot and consultant in the construction of the ZR1, predicts the elimination of disasters due to poor piloting and improper construction-the Captain has carried 100,000 passengers in the air without a scratch-and the ousting of ocean liners by dirigibles. Certainly an air journey of five days from San Francisco to New Zealand instead of 22 by sea is tempting...
More than 40,000 drawings by children in all parts of the U. S. were examined in a test of the artistic impulses of children between three and four years of age by Miss Stella McCarty, associate professor of education in Goucher College, Baltimore. At this age, she concluded, children have little or no sense of proportion or perspective...
Commander McCrary of the gigantic new ZR1, U. S. Navy, about to take a test run from Lakehurst, N. J., to St. Louis, was much impressed by the Dixmude's performance...
...English debating team arrived at the South Station at 8 o'clock last night and proceeded to the Harvard Club, where they are being entertained during their stay in Boston. This morning they will visit Symphony Hall in order to test its acoustic properties...