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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech as a wedge to drive farther apart the two elements of the Republican party was Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison, archironist of the Democrats. Tongue in cheek, he prodded and pummeled the achy joints of the Senate G. O. P. Surely, he said, Secretary Adams did not mean to include in his list Senator Borah, who had "rendered greater service to the Republican party in the campaign and contributed more to its victory" than Herbert Hoover himself. Senator Brookhart, of all Republicans one of the least Regular, asked if Secretary Adams was not once himself "a distinguished insurgent...
...required, to the Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. By custom he delivered a speech on Peace. Contrary to custom he said something pointed. His argument: The Kellogg treaty for the renunciation of war is a "declaration" of "faith and idealism" which must be followed by "action." It must mean "all armament hereafter shall be used only for defense." But "we are still borne on the tide of competitive building. . . . Fear and suspicion . . . will never disappear until we can turn this tide toward actual reduction." He insisted on finding a "rational yardstick" for naval comparisons, and added: "Limitation upward...
This is precisely what we took Professor Rogers to mean in our editorial defense of his speech published on Monday. It was impossible that a man of his ability as a teacher, and of his true magnanimity in conduct, toward others, could have any other ultimate meaning. Yet we confess that we greatly prefer the terms in which he has now expressed himself. Gone are the phrases which served to remind one, even though unintentionally, of the code of that "great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On" portrayed in "Mrs. Warren's Profession." Gone is the emphasis upon trifles...
...those occupied with more serious affairs; if he retires too completely behind a pillar he tails to gather the information necessary for his theoretical report on "Some irregular methods of tilling blue books." It has been will said that the successful proctor approaches more nearly to the Golden Mean than any other College official...
...enough for us to pass by her. . . . You are already jealous of Madame Grill. But, my dear Bella, your husband is after all not a man of that sort. . . . You are the Baroness von Buttlär and I am the widow of General von Palikow. Well, doesn't that mean that we are two fortresses to which people who don't belong to us have no entree? . . . We simply issue a decree?and Madame Grill ceases to exist...