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Fame & Force. If the Republicans at Cleveland should nominate Idaho's Borah, the G. O. P. would be putting into the field the most famed Senator of this century. Yet in that fame many a voter would doubtless find something old and outmoded, a far-away-&-long-ago quality ill-suited to an up-to-date campaign against the most up-to-date campaigner in Democratic history. For a generation Borah was the great Moral Force of the Senate, the one member who could arise and deal with Right & Wrong in an electric way. Now the conscience...
...What Will You Do Without Water?" They wrote to the President, were answered by a White House clerk. They wrote to the War Department, were answered by publicity releases saying that the canal was going right ahead. Then they began writing to Congressmen. Thus Senator Van denberg heard their far-away cry for help, demanded an investigation which was the subject of last week's hearings...
...collection is the drawing, "Once Upon A Time." It is a simple sketch of a woman, aged and wrinkled by care and hard work, sitting with hands folded in her lap in a bare tenement room which looks out upon factories and smokestacks. Her face has a far-away expression and every detail of it and of her eyes are so well and carefully done that it is almost possible to see the nearly-forgotten happy memories which are thronging her brain. There are indeed few artists today who could equal the feeling and pathos of this picture...
...Senate uprose Majority Leader Robinson to quaver: "Probably the most widely known citizen of the United States and certainly the best beloved met his death some hours ago in a lonely and far-away place. . . . Peace to them...
...taught to read. Her lecherous, spying old father-in-law comes in to charge her with being as cold as a cold fish to her spouse. Because of her there is no heir to the Izmailov name. The puling Zinovi is called hurriedly to repair a break in a far-away milldam. Before he leaves Katerina has to bow low before him, swear to be faithful in his absence...