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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strother achieved a Washington reputation on the World's Work in the days when it dealt seriously (though safely) with politics. The World's Work, under Barton Wood Currie, onetime editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, now devotes itself to popular business tales, leaving to President Hoover the Strother erudition...
...ruled the state as a political dictator, had tramped into the Legislature at Baton Rouge to issue his orders, had played hob with the State's appointive boards and commissions. For ten months his opponents cringed before him, treasuring their grievances. Last week the gusty wind of popular favor veered 180 degrees and a hurricane of public condemnation swept down upon the young man who styled himself the "Kaiser of Louisiana...
...reform platform. He pledged himself to dry up the county in general and the city of Aurora (to Chicago: 40 miles) in particular. Last week his enforcement promise produced: one dead woman, one man with a fractured skull, one deputy sheriff with a bullet in his leg, popular resentment so strong that the State of Illinois had to step in and take over the consequences of his official zeal...
...Dictator. Especially vivid and stirring were the footages showing Cardinal La Fontaine, Patriarch of Venice; Cardinal Gamba, Archbishop of Turin; and Cardinal Mam, Archbishop of Pisa, all of whom proceeded directly from the cele- bration of High Mass to vote at the head of their clergy. Photographs of popular Cardinals in the act of dropping their sealed ballots into the voting urn were displayed in all Italian illustrated reviews and Sunday roto-gravures. In sunny Palermo cameras even caught Monsignor Lavitrano as he ostentatiously deposited unsealed a ballot plainly emblazoned with the Fascist device.* Placid, bespectacled Pope Pius...
...physiology and biology this quicker, more ample response to meats than to breads seems to confirm the popular belief that man is fundamentally more carnivorous than herbivorous. In gastronomy, the Philadelphia revelations indicate that for appetizers, hors d'oeuvre, antipasto, Zuspeise or a "chaw" of preserved beef might well be substituted for cocktails...