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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have found, however, that when I was doing the right thing a great many unforeseen elements would come in and turn to my advantage. Presidents are broken down by outside enterprises. . . . I try to remember that there is only one ex-President living. ..." This was also the year of that strange luncheon of President & Mrs. Coolidge and Governor & Mrs. Alfred E. Smith...
...language that caused his more bellicose followers to ask if he were "pulling his punches" (gentling). His attack was on broad principles. He never ridiculed the White House, never called the President names. Small wonder that the many potent Republicans who recommended his appointment to a $12,500 job found the President responsive...
Dynamo. All the fallibility of Eugene O'Neill as a playwright is to be found in his latest play, the first of a trilogy in which, believe it or not, he evidently seeks to answer no less a question than: What is God? It is the dramatization of that inexplicable bewilderment that has befogged men from the first grey light of a primeval dawn. To the farrago of groping speculation that has entangled the ages, O'Neill has brought the confusion of his own technique in the theatre. It could scarcely be expected that the result would...
...greatest interpreter of modern times,'and perhaps of any age, was Gustave Henri Camerlynck. Death found him, last week, in Paris, five days after he had taken to bed with influenza. As Chief Interpreter of the Paris Peace Conference, the Washington Conference, and the First Dawes Committee, Professor Camerlynck received the personal thanks of such statesmen as David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson. He was to have interpreted for the new Second Dawes Committee (see col. 2). As illness stole upon him last fortnight, Professor Camerlynck interpreted, for the last time, between Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France...
Persons who may be planning further dynamitings were warned by Presidential proclamation thus: "The Government believes that economic pressure will be of use to it, and will seize the holdings of those found to be the authors or accomplices of such crimes...