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...bitter, rhymed invective Pact Patriot Rudyard Kipling last week flayed the Cabinet of Socialist-Pacifist James Ramsay MacDonald for suggesting in a recent diplomatic note to other governments that "distinguished visitors" be discouraged from incessantly laying wreaths on the Cenotaph and the Westminster Abbey tomb of "The Unknown Soldier." Excerpt from the new four stanza poem...
...Kansas Republican Senator Arthur Capper is campaigning for reelection. Excerpt : "This is no time to put Democrats in power-the Lord knows it is all the Republicans can do to keep things going in times like these...
...Republican campaign at Wilmington last week, the Vice President warmly championed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act in an address which was a composite echo of all the Republican tariff speeches he had been forced to listen to during the nine months this measure was before the Senate. High point excerpt...
...blemishes upon the portrait. Each college generation has it within its power to refine or to smudge this portrait." Horrid Picture. More doleful was the outlook of eloquent, beetle-browed little Warden Bernard Iddings Bell of St. Stephens College (New York), whose views appear in the current Bookman. Excerpt: "Assurances that illiteracy is decreasing among us or that many more children than used to go on nowadays to secondary school and college . . . are, to be sure, sources of joy; but still the horrid picture remains of an increasing immaturity at the top of the intellectual pile-of a world dominated...
...Pacific. A few minutes later she was dead. Her Barling monoplane Agua Caliente plowed into a hillside four miles north of the airport. Investigators searching the aviatrix' room found a note to (and revealing that she had been married three months ago to) Robert A. Elliott, Naval Reserve pilot. Excerpt: "If I have preceded you, do not grieve for me, but be content. Finish your work down here and make me proud of you. . . . And when you come I will welcome you. . . ." Other investigators at Irving, Kan., found that Ruth Alexander, 24, had been married twice before. Her second husband...