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There are several plays well known to the American theatregoer now running in London. Pauline Lord and Anna Christie are at the Strand. E. U. R. and its robots persist at the St. Martin's. The British edition of the Music Box Revue at the Palace, So This Is London! at the Prince of Wales, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Partners Again, Secrets, a New Yorker could almost spend every night of a week in London seeing plays he had already seen in America, Though why he should is, of course, quite another matter. And then there is From Dover Street...
...preventing undue reduction of net income by deduction of losses is equally possible and even more desirable as it is estimated that there is a heavy loss of tax revenue from this cause. But in this matter, as in other matters, legislation is no panacea. Ways of escape will persist, in spite of legislation, and will be availed of, as long as there is sufficient inducement. No matter what gaps are stopped by acts of Congress, the output of tax-exempt securities by states and municipalities will continue to afford an easy escape from all federal income surtaxes. This broad...
...Rumors persist that Ambassador Harvey will shortly resign his post as American Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Nothing definite is known, except that the report seems to rely for its authenticity upon a statement made by an American Embassy official that Mr. Harvey wished to stay in America at the time of the Baldwin debt negotiations; and the Ambassador's preamble to his now famous Pilgrim speech in London, when he said: " I am utterly destitute of the traditional weapons of diplomacy...
...organize, the business man, the war lord and the scientist must pass into early obscurity. A hundred years from now Stinnes, Basil Zaharoff, James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan and Judge Gary will be familiar to antiquarians only, while the fame of Keats and Shelley, Dostoevsky and Goethe will persist to annoy and fascinate hundreds of generations of school children. Even such a recent cataclysm as the World War did not seriously disturb the order of rank in the international hall of fame. For all of their "saving of the world" and their "redemption of democracy." Foch, Clemenceau, Wilson...
...those words. We hear them from preachers and administrators, from Jew bailers and from sentimental philo-Semites. But they have a meaning which as Americans we have yet to penetrate. We cannot have tolerance until we recognize the real issues involved, until we perceive why social and ethnic prejudices persist, why Jew and non-Jew cannot get together and have "plain talk and high thinking" without being hampered by stultifying self-consciousness. And we are Harvard men, too; can we not reason together on that basis, and in respect for the tradition we all love, instead of skulking...