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...Wells' fancy to picture the world of one-hundred and eighty years hence as a planet wholly civilized, gathered into one state, its trade perfected, its people lavishly provided with every necessity and every imaginable means of happiness, well ordered and well governed, none can gainsay him. If, in the course of showing the process by which this Utopia is achieved, he predicts devastating wars for the 1940's, complete breakdown of all trade in the sixties, the consequent reduction of all peoples to a semi-savage state, and the rescue of the populations from this distress by aviators...
...acquisitiveness, science rather than mythology, realism rather than ritualism, will, I suspect, have a large part. They wish to start fresh. And the generation just ahead of them has not so much to be proud of in what it has made of the world that it should wish to gainsay them in their own new deal...
...foreign student important enough to academic society to warrant letting him loose among possible jobs to the detriment of the unprotected American citizen? Certainly even those who fell most remotely international cannot gainsay the importance of the leavening influence in international relations of this year by year interchange of students. This influence should surely increase in years to come...
...Cherries are Ripe" purports to be, and who would gainsay it, a risque, but restrained, comedy of sophisticated Budapest as it acts for a day in the country. The only thing jibing with this reviewer's quaint idea of what is Budapestian is Vilma Banky, and she is accordingly honored only because he read in the program that she was born in those parts. Rod La Roque is not quite up to his movie standard, which was unpleasant enough, anyway...
People muttered obvious things about a "smalltown banker" being placed in charge of all national banks in the U. S., but Mr. Crissinger's ability soon silenced such mutterings. And none could gainsay the appropriateness of his further elevation, in 1923, to the gov- ernorship of the Federal Reserve System...