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...Secretary Hull last fortnight went a copy of a Senate Resolution introduced by North Dakota's Nye, proposing to end the embargo on arms shipments to the Spanish Government. Last week, after conferring with Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Hull sent the Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman his reply. This was a terse note to the effect that having adopted a policy of "strict noninterference" the U. S. could not now consistently alter it; and that "even if the legislation applied to both parties, its enactment would still subject us to unnecessary risks we have so far avoided." Furthermore, wrote...
...like Rose Wilder Lane's Free Land, look solidly good to begin with, turn out to contain the sort of black specks that are sometimes found inside the best-appearing small potatoes. Well-written, soberly sentimental, Free Land is the story of a newly-married homesteader in the Dakota territory. Although claim jumpers, land-grabbers, Indians, horse thieves, come into the story, and the hero is attracted by a neighbor's pretty daughter, Author Lane avoids unpleasant human situations as carefully as a dainty pioneer woman avoiding puddles. Blizzards, droughts and cyclones are the main events; in comparison...
When Gay MacLaren was a little girl she decided to become an elocutionist after she heard a Chautauqua performer recite The Bobolink. The high point of this performance was a trill: cheeeeeee, prrrrrrr, cheeeeeeeeeeeeee, which Gay practiced so hard her South Dakota neighbors asked her if she didn't know a piece with some other kind of bird in it. But Gay kept on practicing, studied elocution in Minneapolis, finally got her big chance at the New York Chautauqua. Thereafter she followed the Chautauqua circuit, along with chalk-talk artists, bell ringers, evangelists, yodlers, zither performers, magicians, bagpipe players...
...sort of performance as any other. Although Gay MacLaren summons up a vanished area of U. S. cultural life in Morally We Roll Along, tells some good stories, the main impression communicated by her book is that in the end she decided that the childhood advice of her South Dakota neighbors was not so bad as she had thought...
...Florida issued a special Mother's Day proclamation. Before he died a few years ago he called Miss Jarvis to his bedside and asked her if he had been the first Governor to get aboard the bandwagon. Tenderheartedly she said yes, but actually the Governor of North Dakota, she says, beat him to it by several days. Then in 1914 President Wilson issued a National proclamation and the flower stores began to sense the possibilities. Miss Jarvis started her hopeless, 25-year fight against commercialism...