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From quarters close to Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, than whom Alfred Emanuel Smith has few abler or more intimate lieutenants in his campaign for the Democratic nomination, came a report...
...Five O'Clock Girl. A large-sized musical comedy descended upon Manhattan, its cap feathered with Mary Eaton & Oscar Shaw. Norman Bel Geddes scenery and a tune ("Thinking of You") were, many thought, even abler ingredients. The plot, that old dodderer of musical comedies, explained how a modiste's model married a millionaire. The jokes were moldy, the dancing deft, and the vast chorus uncommonly bewitching. Imbedded none too conspicuously in the generally unwieldy proceedings is an actor named Louis John Bartels, playing his first part on Broadway since he laid a just claim to fame as the blabbering, brilliant...
...tutorial system has begun to invade the preparatory school. The annual report of the Rector of St. Paul's School announces that it has been decided to institute a form of honors course. Instead of meeting with their classes the abler students have special assignments with an instructor twice a week to conter about work assigned and to discuss advanced projects...
Senator Underwood of Alabama (a Kentuckian by birth), one of the abler men of his party, "sound and conservative," who is serving his final term in the Senate, having announced that he will retire next March, had been pressing for an amendment to the Senate rules such as has been favored by Vice President Dawes-an amendment which would require a vote on revenue and appropriation bills to be taken and debate to be shut off by majority petition, so that bills may not be talked to death by a vociferous minority...
...Dawes would seek advice from the regular Republicans. He did not. The next day he announced his selection: Regular Republicans, Wadsworth of New York and Reed of Pennsylvania; Progressive Republican," LaFollette of Wisconsin; Democrats, Robinson of Arkansas and Bruce of Maryland. The two regular Republicans are considered among the abler young Republicans. LaFollette is indubitably Progressive; in fact he is the only Republican in the Senate who officially describes himself as such. Senator Joseph T. Robinson is the Democratic leader. Senator Bruce is a Democrat, but what might be called an independent Conservative Democrat. He has frequently voted with...