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None of the guests was over 25. Their youth makes their ideas susceptible to a criticism of jejunity. On the other hand, their present ability premises future leadership in their denominations. They may portend the end of a phase of U. S. Protestantism which (vide Bruce Barton) has adapted Christ to contemporary ideals and mores...
Meanwhile political Washington was acutely conscious of every move made by Citizen Coolidge in California. Speculation continued as to the significance, if any, of this Coolidge junket. President Hoover's White House secretariat, more alarmed about it than anyone else, expressed secret misgivings lest it might portend presidential developments...
...foggy twilight last week, New York radio stations suddenly stopped broadcasting and the air was filled with SOS calls. While radio listeners wondered what the silence might portend, there was administered in the outer reaches of New York Harbor what might be called perfect disaster treatment. It began when passengers on the British steamship Fort Victoria, inching along in the soupy mist toward Bermuda, heard the bedlam of fog warnings, the fierce, hoarse blasts of a whistle which seemed altogether too near. Then the prow of the Clyde liner Algonquin, outbound for Galveston, loomed out of the murk and buried...
...Cabinet the most dramatic shaking up in the history of his regime. He had kicked himself out of seven* of the eight Cabinet ministries he previously held -retaining only the portfolio of Interior and of course the Prime Ministry. Wildest rumors were current as to what this might portend: 1) That he had negotiated a secret pact of union between Italy and Hungary and was clearing his decks to become Supreme Chancellor of this dual realm; 2) That he was preparing to proclaim Italy an empire and would have bandy-legged little King Vittorio Emanuele crowned Emperor by His Holiness...
...resignation of Baron Giichi Tanaka, grizzled seadog, and the advent of Yuko Hamaguchi, tall, shaggy economist, as Prime Minister of Japan (TIME, July 8), seemed last week to portend two changes of international interest: 1) increased calm in China; 2) Japan's co-operation at the imminent five-power naval reduction conferences...