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Governor Rolph realizes this, and was not advocating lynch law. A keen observer of popular trends, he was praising a spectacular demonstration of rising public intolerance with an emasculated system of criminal law. The lynching was a challenge to the legal fraternity. It gave them a glimpse of what failure to reform will lead to. It was a crude symptom of a state of intolerance of wrong, an intolerance against ineffectuality on the part of a mechanism originally established for the public good but reduced by changing conditions and technicalities to a mockery...
...illustrates. Indeed, this domestic novel might almost be conceived, by a perverse fancy, as a preachment for the domestic virtues, banished from speech and thought since the good Queen's death. Mr. Hoffman, however, is no propagandist. He is merely chronicling events which have been registered on his very keen and subtle sensibility...
...pages indefatigable Mrs. Roosevelt has spread her talent very thin. It is not half so rich and keen a book as her cousin Alice's, published simultaneously (TIME, Nov. 6). Nevertheless, the volume and catholicity of subjects Eleanor Roosevelt touches on-from preparing stuffed eggs to the NRA-proves her once more a lady of illimitable interests. Excerpts...
...begin calling knaves knaves. With a courage, born as much of sincerity as of invulnerbility, Dean Holmes has clouted a hornets nest with a very short handled stick. He has not much of a solution to offer, but he has sensed the difficulty, of the American feels a keen desire to perpetuate the kind of politician which is his bane; there is no better, no surer way to do it than to leave in that politician's sticky fingers his educational system. TERTIUS...
...English are pointed out as excellent fields for those who believe themselves bound for business but are still undecided as to concentration. Writing and a thorough acquaintance with his native language will help a man no matter what occupation he takes up. History is important in developing a keen perspective for current events...