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...would be held and were making their arrangements accordingly. Said ex-Premier Giolitti: "It is necessary that the country should have a chance to show what men represent its views. I believe the election should be held in April. It is a mistake to hold an election in winter. Fourteen years ago I made this mistake, which cost many votes as owing to the weather, the people in the mountain districts were unable to visit the polls...
...result of competitions which have Tasted all fall, the Harvard Dramatic Club announced last night the election of fourteen new members...
...Near East. But even that commercial prestige which may be enhanced by the new treaty promises to be toppled by the mismanagement of the Chester concession. This huge grant, involving construction of railways, ports, and manufacturing centers, was given to Rear Admiral Chester and his associates after fourteen years of discouraging negotiations. Today it is largely in the hands of Canadian interests; although even Kemal Pasha regards it as a strictly American undertaking by which the good faith of the United States may be judged. The political and economic difficulties which face the concessionaires are perhaps insurmountable...
...Fourteen fitful fragments of their decline and fall are whisked by in staccato succession. Fourteen is too many times to snap the thread of theatrical illusion. Rather a restless rise of suspense is the result; it sags and roust be picked up again with visible effort at the beginning of each scene...
...would seem as if the bull-dog must have fed himself full already this fall, especially after slaughtering the unfortunate Tiger a week ago. But John Harvard has within the past fourteen years beaten him so often about the head and shoulders that the bulldog's injured pride has filled him with an unequalled ferocity. In fact the air is full of uncouth growls and mutterings of "at least a three touchdown margin" and "forty-one to nothing or bust...