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...capacity of an Administration?or at least of three great departments of it???to discharge the high duties imposed upon it???yea, more, the peril of permitting a party to select men for such places. This Teapot Dome is a crucible in which a great political organization shall be tested, and it is found to be dross. That is the reason the elephant trembles from trunk to tail...
Johnson is apparently undismayed by the great start which Coolidge has taken from him. To the less partisan observers it seems that Johnson's chances depend on a "break." What prospects are there of such a break? An issue in Congress may provide it???but that is unpredictable. The only other major possibility now apparent is a soft coal strike next spring. The soft coal miners' wage contract will expire. A strike is likely. On Jan. 22 a convention of the United Mine Workers at Indianapolis will formulate their demands. If there should be a prolonged strike, it might seriously...
Ghost-mad, love-mad, revengefully sane?Hamlet as only Barrymore can do it???New Haven, Hartford, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, London? such is the itinerary laid out by Arthur Hopkins for his own John Barrymore and Shakespeare's own Hamlet...
...object; they rather urge it. " But," they say, " when Mr. Cummins has these new duties he must give up the Chairmanship of the Interstate Commerce Committee." " But," reply the regular Republicans, " if Mr. Cummins leaves the Committee, Senator La Toilette, by seniority rule, will become Chairman of it???he would be able to play with the railways just as he and the other 'radicals' desire...
...story if it has not an emotional basis. There is a good vulgar word which describes the quality of which I am speaking. Wallace Irwin has it in his writing, so too have Harold Bell Wright, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens? and the word is guts! You may not like it???but I can think of no other word which so completely expresses what I mean...