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...Some people," said he, "have force, personality, leadership. With others it's just the opposite. Mr. Black is a kindly, gentle, fine individual, but as a leader, an up-to-date fellow, a go-getter-why he just doesn't know the first thing about it. At best, the church is standing still. In a growing community like Douglaston we need a live wire. We tried to play ball on this proposition. We offered to take care of him for 18 months. But he became stubborn, showing his inability to realize what is best for the church...
...hard-working politicians like Senators Smoot, Willis and David A. Reed, Secretary Mellon, Vice President Dawes, Frank O. Lowden, Nicholas Longworth ? men among whom Calvin Coolidge is, by temperament and tradition, a virtual stranger. These men, thought Mr. Sullivan, would be sorry to lose so good a vote-getter as Calvin Coolidge but ? personal ambitions quite aside ? they would not seek to nominate him now because that would be "the sort of thing that 'is not done'. It would be sensational, spectacular, emotional. The Republicans like to think of them selves as a little too orderly...
...reason Henry Kendall, who plays the part of Heney, the young poet, fails to satisfy. He is too much All the Sad Young Men, and all that Mr. Kendall has any right to attempt is bondsalesmanship in three lessons. The extended paw and the unrelenting finger of the go-getter is his. His flair for comedy saves him at times, but after all nothing is so invaluable to a bond salesman as the ready joke...
Massachusetts. David Ignatius Walsh, Democrat, v. Senator William M. Butler. Here is a state with more than a million voters, where the difference between the two candidates will probably be less than 20,000 ballots. Onetime (1914-15) Governor Walsh, Irish-Catholic, Wet, is the most potent vote-getter in the commonwealth. His strength lies in Boston (outside of Back Bay) and in the large mill towns. Senator Butler echoes "Coolidge and Prosperity," and sounds pleasant to wealthy manufacturers, to rock-bound farmers, to red-brick- and-green-shutter folk from the Berkshire Hills to Cape Cod. Senator Butler...
...production as applied to the spiritual side of life. He will get men into his church if he has to run prize fights in the pulpit, foot races down the aisles, and circularize through the mail. "If Paul of Tarsus [loud cheers for Paul, 'the first Christian go-getter'] was not above inditing epistles to Thessalonia, I'm not above writing letters to the Bronx." When a belated spark of rebellion lights up Mr. Midge's poor soul, family responsibilities smother it to death. Mr. McEvoy's brilliant lines are aided by effective staging...