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...King?still partial to General Berenguer?made him Chief of the Casa Militar (Royal Military Household ). Many believe that the wily General managed in this intimate post to sow suspicion, then hate, between King and Dictator. The seed has been four years in sprouting ?and economic factors have been at least as potent as intrigue...
...sitting with drawn lips, like men playing cards, trying to see how much power they may keep and what advantage they may gain? . . . When we get really civilized it will be much quieter. There will be no place for oratory. All noise is a symbol of imperfection, of partial accomplishment...
...peace was only partial. Scarcely had last week's train completed its run than all the Chinese employes of the C. E. R. went on strike, claiming that vigorous Comrade Rudy had unjustifiably discharged 300 Chinese machinists. In Nanking, officials of the Nationalist Government examined minutely the wording of the Khabarovsk Treaty, started angrily at the number of concessions to Russia to which abject Manchurians had agreed announced that they would not ratify the Chino-Soviet Treaty, summoned placid Mr. Mo for a good talking...
Though industry has not yet found it expedient to sacrifice practicality for art's sake, intelligent progress in more effective illustration and typography represents definite progress in achieving better advertising. Accuracy and sincerity, two qualities sometimes lacking in the paraphernalia of propaganda have come, as one partial result of the Bok prizes, to be recognized as factors of the greatest value in present-day exposition of commodities. The practical application of the theory of honest and effective advertising could be taken as an adequate symbol of the usefulness of the Harvard Business School in American industry...
Children of Darkness. History is apt to make the ladies of bygone centuries seem lovelier than our own. and the scamps of other times appear far more appealing in their outrageousness than contemporary racketeers. Playwright Edwin Justus Mayer (The Firebrand), always partial to historical gloss, has developed his newest play from suggestions given by the late great Novelist Henry Fielding in History of the Life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. The scene is laid in the house of Mr. Snap, gaoler of London's Newgate Prison, in the year 1725. It is Mr. Snap...