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Everyone has his pet reasons for the defeat of the administration candidate. Those whose imaginations are more eloquent than their wisdom loss off their inhibitions and express the conviction that the present case is just another example of the insidious action of the dread hand of socialism or some other unmentionable force working to upset the present political organization of the country...
Every self-disrespecting U. S. city has a tattle magazine. Usually it is ambiguously guised as a compendium of smartset goings-on. In Philadelphia it is the Town Crier; in Boston the Bostonian. Indiscreet St. Louis socialites dread the Censor; incautious Kansas citizens the Independent. But the happy hunting grounds of the gossip-magazine publisher are Manhattan and Washington. With the announcement: last week that the Club Fellow & Washington Mirror had been bought by the owners of the Taller & American Sketch, it became apparent that Windsor Publishing Corp. had its field almost completely in control. Only the 52-year...
...traditional aloofness to foreign entanglements. Why not consider the state rights of citizens of the Western Hemisphere in line with our own political experience? In the meanwhile our sister republics read and reread TIME. The unofficial promise it contains, the friendly American grin it brings to mind vanishes dread bugaboos of imperialistic satraps and oil barons...
...fervent minds of the cheering Italian congregation, Pius XI unquestionably appeared at that moment as the dread and visible incarnation of stern St. Peter, girt in the austere scarlet of a bishop to do battle with the Devil...
Theological concepts of pagan origin are somewhat out of favor just at present, but these gentlemen must surely live in fear and dread lest the Divine Eve-should open earlier than usual some morning and catch them in the act of getting a shine on Sunday...