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Clergy Pensions. Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays, who headed a committee to gather $15,000,000 last year for a ministers' pension fund, announced fruition of his campaign; was visibly moved at the earnestness of applause accorded...
There will be few, outside the stricter circle of pedantry, to deny that this work is important in the development of historiography. It is unfortunately true, however, that too many will look upon it as the defiance of a new school, rather than as the fruition of an old one. The scholars who have looked at history as something more than treaties and battles have been in a minority in this country, but they have not been totally absent. The work of Professor Turner, of J. R. Smith, of Professor Breasted and of a host of younger writers among whom...
...fundamental requisite for genius is a good heritage. This no one denies. But a benevolent environment is a factor of no less importance. I have not the slightest doubt but that America today is teeming with potential greatness, a goodly proportion of which will never come to fruition because of lack of opportunity. One of the soundest arguments of the Neo-Malthusians is that wide-spread opportunity can only be offered to developing manhood and womanhood in a nation unharassed by population difficulties. The second contention is simply false. It was disposed of by Havelock Ellis in a series...
...shack in the oil field area houses the fruition of the financier's plot, the murder of the innocent by rebel-general De Castro (Felix Krembs). "President Parkman's son killed," shriek press headlines, cinema reels, radio announcers. The cinema is interpolated into the second act, revealing the wheels of propaganda at work, affording respite to taut nerves in the audience. Martin Henderson is filmed "Enlisting with Uncle Sam at a dollar a year." In the end, young Parkman turns up, only wounded. The band plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" to a happy curtain...
...foot by several graduates, to give money to the University for the purchase. It is for that, and that reason only, that the house has not yet been sold. It is inconceivable that a plan which has so many delightful angles will not be carried to its fruition...