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...expect from Editor Frank, Wisconsin had but to hark back to a speech he made, last summer, at the University of Michigan : "I dislike to speak of education, religion and politics as if they were three distinct fields. They are, or should be, an indivisible unity. . . . The professor, the parson and the politician are at work on the same job . . . the achievement of 'the good life' for the citizen and for the Nation...
...Coolidge's office. (Several Federal posts in Nebraska are vacant.) But he did not wear the pince nez of Senator Howells, railroad investigator. Nor was he Senator Norris, trust buster and Muscle Shoals expert. He was simply a Congressman-the Rev. Melvin Or lando McLaughlin, onetime parson. Before the day was over, politicians near and far learned that the Rev. Mr. McLaughlin had discussed pa tronage with the President. Could this, they asked, possibly mean that Mr. Coolidge had decided to snub the Nebraska Senators? Already four nominal Republican Senators (LaFollette, Brookhart, Ladd, Frazier) have been ejected from...
...There was once a Scotch parson who said in a sermon. 'And now, my brethren, we come to a varry deeficult passage ; and having looked it bowldly in the face, we will pass on.' His talents were wasted in the Church. He should have gone in for operatic management...
...HEAVENLY LADDER - Compton Mackenzie-Doran ($2.50). Mr. Mackenzie has been for some time occupied with the spiritual salvation of Mark Lidderdale. The Altar Stops and The Parson's Progress have already brought him into the Anglican ministry. In The Heavenly Ladder, he has taken a living in Nancepan, minute fishing and farming parish. He sets to work to startle the population into salvation, introducing the most advanced rituals of Church of England Catholicism. The horrified villagers retaliate by savagely underhanded attacks on the man who, to their minds, is guilty of extremest blasphemy. Finally, he finds peace...
Seventh Day. The sun came out blistering. When the 1924 starters dug their holes, the world's record for the 400-metre run stood at 48⅓ secs. When Liddell, spindly Scotch parson, snapped the tape in the final, it was 47 3/3 secs. Before Liddell settled the matter the record had been broken twice in heats, by Imbach, an unsung Swiss, by Fitch, a fast Chicagoan...