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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening, M. Herbette ascended the steps which led to the Russian Embassy. The doors were opened by powdered and uniformed valets. A moment later the Bolshevik Ambassador dressed in correct capitalistic attire greeted his guest, who was then introduced to Mme. Krassin and the Miles. Krassin, all wearing the latest and most expensive of Paris "creations." M. Herbette was glad that he was wearing a white...
...second lesson derived from this latest explosion in the automobile world is the growing demand for closed cars and the effort of manufacturers to get them into quantity production. If this can be done, unit costs in a closed car can be kept even with an open model, despite the greater material and workmanship called for by the former. Enthusiasts now prophesy that in a few years open cars will be built only on special order-as closed cars were when the motor industry first started...
...there is any mortal whose lot no mortal need envy, it is that of Mr. Nicholas Murray Butler. The honored president of Columbia University can seldom stir from its portals without arousing a storm of reviling quite incommensurate with the strength of his opinions. His latest mishap along the road of liberal salvation is named "The Faith of a Liberal", and what a whirlwind of scarn and opposition it has blown up! His liberalism is satirized, his progressiveness denied, and all his past is dragged forth "to affright his eyes...
Those who still support the theory of democratic omniscience may well be disheartened. The public refuses to be in the least regardful of momentous decisions. The public mind, naturally lazy, untangles more easily the web of the latest divorce case than the threads of economic and social policy. It cannot think for itself, yet dare not let others think for it. It arrogates to itself all political intelligence and refuses to exercise...
...actual draw for the rooms will be held as soon as possible after that time and the announcement of the final assignments will be made at the latest by the first of the following week. As was announced before the Christmas recess, "the allotment will be strictly impartial." The only preference shown will be to the larger groups of 12 and 18, which will stand a better chance in the draw than the smaller groups...