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...poll the results may be decidedly beneficial. It covers a sufficiently large sector of the population to enable a politician to judge the trend of his constituents' convictions. To all except a few fanatics, Prohibition has, even in daily conversation, dwindled in importance. Could the candidates for office frankly discard this question, their election would be decided on more consequential issues of economic relief and international cooperation...
...That the new French plan for an International Police Force directed by the League of Nations be discarded (this discard proposed by Italy and Russia, with Britain egging them on openly, Germany and the U. S. covertly). > That all "aggressive armaments" be discarded by all nations, provided this be done by an "organic plan'' (proposed by Italy...
When someone tells him he has made a clumsy sequence, Lubitsch says, "I wanted it that way," trumps up a complicated reason. He says: "I discard rules in making pictures. . . . Whatever fits best...
...rulers are limiting that unique feature of democracy, free speech, and this limitation in turn is aggravating the unrest. One must agree with Mr. Bliven that the normal human being prefers the application of his theory to open discussion about it. Consequently, when one group of people wants to discard a system, say, of government, and another wants to retain it, they fight each other by fair methods or foul. Boiled down, the principle always practiced is that the end justifies the means. One of the means followed in warfare; another is suppression of free speech...
...memorial services in Frankfurt-am-Main there were no brothers or sisters. Her niece. Princess Victoria Louise, was there with the ex-Crown Prince and Prince Eitel Friedrich. With the death of Sophie there remained in the European deck only 17 queens, ten in play, seven in the discard...