Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leader should fly with Lindbergh! Perhaps he thinks it would be too great a loss to the country if he crashed fatally. I think it would be a great loss, but President Coolidge pointed out himself that there are plenty of big men to take his place. As a matter of fact, if Coolidge flew with Lindbergh and they crashed, the loss of Lindbergh would dwarf the loss of Coolidge. On the other hand, the spectacle of our leader joining in on the greatest enterprise of the age (Conquering the Air) would exalt this country far more than anything else...
...permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers) say the Thompson-Crowe-Small-Smith faction is vile, vicious, responsible for Chicago's maladies. But, curiously enough, the maligned fellows have a habit of winning elections. It does not matter that, in 1924, Mr. Crowe called his present ally, Mayor Thompson, "the worst political derelict pestering Chicago." Nor does it matter that Senator Deneen was the good friend of Mr. Smith when the latter was trying to get into the Senate. Now Senator Deneen is supporting one Otis F. Glenn, the opponent...
...this has been going on, and continues, here in Massachusetts. At Williams the Junior Student Council has decided to eliminate bootleggers. Its members have drawn their first blood by confiscating a car as its owner delivered liquor to the inhabitants of a dormitory. They have brought the matter before the law, and now the court is to pronounce judgment upon the dealer. The case hangs fire, while those concerned with the fate of bootleggers and of student councils watch, intrigued. Whether it is nobler to suffer in silence, or to take arms against this move--that is the question...
Just at present few can see any great danger of a Red invasion, and the overthrow of government by radicals of extreme doctrines. Much more urgent a matter is the policy of the opposite party, which, under the guise of protecting defenceless America from pernicious Reds, wields a powerful weapon of reaction. The same group of Bolshevik-bailers that backs the closing of Ford Hall Forum lists such names as Dean Pound, Professor Bliss Perry, and the presidents of Smith and Mt. Holyoke as dangerous, and closes to them lecture platforms in towns and clubs where the black list...
...matter of fact, the title is a little bit misleading. Victor McLaglen, who, in his ususal manner cuts an impressive figure as Spike Madden, the chief mate of a merchantman, does not, exactly speaking, have a girl in every port. But at least he makes strenuous efforts--with the aid of his little address book--to find one at every place his ship drops anchor. Obviously, this quest, made fruitless by the activities of another sailor who precedes him by a day or so in each port of call, does not make for unity of plot. In fact the picture...