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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, Hoover is a constructive worker. He has his eye on the job, and he doesn't deal in platitudes. He takes concrete measures for betterment. He is no mere theorist, no mere social worker who might be led astray by fine ideals, for he is a man who is accustomed to dealing with the great men of the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HOOVER UNTARRED WITH THE WASHINGTON BRUSH"-HOLMES | 3/11/1920 | See Source »

...prize-winning story, for the last. One feels like saying, "Who is this man--what?" and "all that sort of thing." It is easy enough to prattle admiration or censure from the easy chair. Perhaps it might be best summed up by saying that if Mr. Leys' farce doesn't sell out this number then Cambridge doesn't recognize its own true genius--in humor at least. If in judging the stories submitted a fairminded judge had seen "Spiking Spicer" first, no one--else--the rest is death--what? Certainly not an intellectual number (the Reviewer didn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEBRUARY ADVOCATE DEALS WITH 'SWEET DRY AND DRY' | 2/4/1920 | See Source »

Doubtless there are some Americans of unquestionable loyalty, who hold views on this subject as colorless as those expressed this morning by Mr. Shubow; but it doesn't make the rest of us any more certain of their loyalty to have them attempt to show that the Country is "politically intolerant"--simply because this bunch of poisonous reptiles is being driven out. It would be just as reasonable to say that Massachusetts is "intolerant," because convicted murderers in Massachusetts are sent to the electric chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/19/1920 | See Source »

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