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...easily missed would be Mrs. Jefferson Borden Harriman, seasoned veteran of conventions. Delegate Harriman bustled, conferred, entertained, all in the interests of the Brown Derby but with one eye on the features of Montana's rugged Walsh, onetime candidate. Did he frown, remembering earlier bustling, conferring, entertaining in his behalf? Did he smile, recalling that he had released his followers from political loyalty, if not from personal affection? Delegate Harriman speculated. In a dining-room high above Times Square, Manhattan, another friend lunched privately and importantly with his fellow princes of the press. Diminutive Louis Wiley, presiding over...
...open letter to Cardinal Pompili, vicar of the Rome diocese, apropos of a "gymnastic" competition which was held in that city last week. The Pontiff proceeded to explain that he was not, in principle, opposed to athletics but that when competitions became too exhibitionistic, he felt compelled to frown. Governmental circles in Rome regarded the Pope's letter as another manifestation of the Vatican's opposition to what the Pope calls "Fascist monopolization of the education of youth." At the end of his document the Pontiff gave a hint as to how his own theories contrasted with Fascist...
With his heavy Scotch brows knit in a worried frown, James Ramsay MacDonald, onetime Prime Minister (Jan.-Nov. 1924), proposed, last week, legal protection for the British public against the mind-moulding power of the British newspaper trusts. "An alarming situation is developing!" rapped Scot MacDonald, and many listened because he leads the second largest British parliamentary party: Labor. What had ruffled Laborite MacDonald, it shortly appeared, was the formation last week of a new news trust: "Northcliffe Newspapers...
...happiest little woman In all this little town; And my merry laugh and singing Takes the place of sigh and frown...
Last week, to both parties' alarm, Senator Borah frowned his Olympian frown, waved his Bryanesque backlocks and handed out to Presidential candidates a questionnaire on the great Hush-Hush of the 1928 campaign, Prohibition. It was a sequel to the Borah speaking tour on the same subject (TIME, Nov. 28). It threatened to make a political issue out of a subject in which citizens are actually interested...