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Advocacy of the League blighted the end of the Wilson Administration. It helped defeat James Middleton Cox in 1920. Even today a political belief persists that no outspoken friend of the League can sit in the White House. But as a practical issue the League is so moribund that few persons bothered to associate Mr. Baker with it until he doggedly championed U. S. entry last month. Well aware of the damage it can do parties and politicians he hastened to lay its ghost...
...strengthened when earlier this month he used almost identically the same story in a despatch, to his newspaper. Governor Roosevelt was circumstantially placed at last year's Governors' Conference at French Lick, Ind., and in conversation with "a distinguished Middle Western Democrat" (generally supposed to be James Middleton Cox) saying...
...controversial poems like "The Waste Land" the disintegration of modern life, and as an exponent of humanism, which he offers to counteract that disintegration, Mr. Eliot is a dominant personality in contemporary letters. His position as editor of the Criterion and his influence on such diverse figures as J. Middleton Murry, and the Sitwells, is striking, testimony to his importance in the literary world...
...houses. The production, in its slight way, perfectly expressed the satirical charm of the libretto. The singers, all promising Juilliard students, had been rehearsed until they were practically free from amateurisms. Jack (at the premiere Soprano Mary Katherine Akins) was believably young but not too cute; the giant (Raymond Middleton) blustered as a giant should. The cow's big scene occurred on the road to market, against a background of misshapen stars. Basso Roderic Cross filled out her front legs, did the philosophizing. The silent hindquarters, unmentioned on the program, were Student Warren Lee's. He maneuvered...
...Dayton (Ohio) Daily News is owned by James Middleton Cox, three-time Governor of the State, onetime (1920) Democratic candidate for the Presidency. Last week Mr. Cox's Daily News announced an experiment, charitable, interer-making, reader-getting. The paper had Discovered that in the nearby Miami valley "there are thousands of bushels of wheat selling at such a low price that a great deal of it will be fed to farm animals this winter ... a plenitude of supplies, and yet want involving more families than have ever gone hungry in the history of this country." The Daily News...