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Nominee. The G. O. Politicians of Philadelphia who admire and obey Senator-elect William Scott Vare, met last week and nominated James Montgomery Beck for the U. S. House of Representatives. Mr. Beck used to be (1900-1903) Assistant U. S. Attorney General. He used to be (1921-1925) U. S. Solicitor General. He is an officer of the Legion d' Honneur, a Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgian). Since a Vare-machine nomination is tantamount to election, President Charles B. Hall of the Philadelphia City Council announced: "With Senator Vare in the Upper House...
...love, serve, obey and exalt the United States of America and to teach obedience to and respect for its Constitution and laws...
...skin pigments in blackamoors, the play descriptive of events surrounding the liason of a nice white boy with a jaunty yellow girl. It intends to describe a changing era in the South. The central figure is a bewildered Southern gentleman with whiskers, who finds that the Negroes no longer obey him; that reverence and elegance play little part in modern industrial life. These various factors are knit into an uneven play which kills four people (three offstage) every evening. Arthur Byron,* usually urbane and neatly pressed, does well with the bewhiskered ancient...
...think they would like to write" will find themselves rudely face to face with a pencil and a sheet of blank pa per. People who have written a lot, and badly, will be asked to stop writing. Those who have the "literary impulse" and show some signs of obeying that impulse successfully will be instructed how to obey it profitably. The aim is to save a writer five years, commer cially. There will also be much inspirational and critical instruc tion in the form of lectures and personal conference...
Engineer John Russ, seeing Mr. Pruden, tried to obey, put on the emergency brakes, also blew the locomotive's whistle. Prudent Mr. Pruden, noticing that the train had only been able to slow down to 40 miles per hour as it approached him, jumped. The locomotive's cowcatcher nipped him, knocked him 50 feet...