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...says Authoress Horn, "doesn't know what to do about the Philippines and never has, from the very beginning." She kids the pious rationalizations of McKinley, the imperialistic fanfare of Senator Beveridge (Almighty God had "marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world"). She finds equally quixotic the present-day Filipino hope for coexistent 1) independence, 2) protection by the Asiatic Fleet, 3) free trade with the U. S., 4) exit from the international scene. For President Manuel Quezon-a sort of hothouse hybrid between Jimmy Walker and Huey Long...
...busy riding Michigan's Epworth League circuit that he could no longer get back to Charlotte on Sundays, pious ex-Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson (81) announced regretfully that he would have to give up the Bible Class at the Center Eaton Methodist Church over which he had presided regularly for 55 years-never more regularly than when all he had to do was run Michigan...
...passing a pious, meaningless resolution, the A. F. of L. convention evaded its most explosive issue...
...mark of the Thibaults is a strong, blocky jaw and a flair for dominance. At first there are three-Jacques, his older brother Antoine, their widowed father. Father Oscar is a pious, pompous, severe, uncomprehending and walled-in old man who hides in his heart a mortal fear of death, who snatches at straws of immortality by devoting himself to good works. Jacques is a rebellious, brooding, high-strung adolescent, destined to seek feverishly the meaning of his own life. Antoine is an egoistic, hard-minded doctor, devoted to his work and proud of being a man of action. Theirs...
Finding him "grossly negligent in the performance of his duties as a director," Judge John Clark Knox ruled in Manhattan Federal Court that pious, stockbreeding Chain-Storeman James Cash Penney, as chairman (and only non-dummy director) of Miami's defunct City National Bank, must pay for losses sustained by depositors and stockholders when the bank flopped in 1930. Likely sum due depositors (in addition to the 40% already paid them...