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...some important announcements, testimonials, recruits. Last week, William Gibbs McAdoo, unreconciled Wilsonian Democrat, commended the prize offered by Motor-maker William Crapo Durant for a plan to enforce Prohibition. Everyone knew, of course, that Mr. McAdoo is as dry as a cactus. The question was: did this minor McAdoodling portend a major McAdoodle, an out-and-out repudiation of the Brown Derby? Perhaps, and perhaps there are other hold-offs, more or less strategically arranged by the two parties. Will Senator Norris plump for Smith in his nationwide hookup? What of Wisconsin's young La Follette: is he pro-Smith...
Then Mayor Walker did something that surprised and puzzled. He went to visit William Randolph Hearst on the enormous Hearst estate near San Luis Obispo. What did that portend, treachery or missionary work...
...Surely these phenomena portend a reversal of the experience of history. Even Plato commented with bitterness on the fact that the winner of the foot race in the Olympic Games was better known in Greece than himself. And yet today we hear murmurs because "H" men exploit their position in order to sell insurance, real estate, bonds, and athletic supplies, but what are they to do? It may be reasonable to exclude them from the society of educated men, because listening to a monologue on the stockmarket is pretty painful punishment: but to criticise them for turning an honest dollar...
...proposals of the plenary session by giving a declaration. ... In view of this declaration, the plenary session has decided to withdraw the question about exclusion of Trotzky and Zinoviev from the Central Committee and to admonish them with severe blame and a warning." What did these so contradictory decisions portend? Soon the dean of U. S. correspondents at Moscow, Walter Duranty of the New York Times, cabled an opinion: "All signs now indicate that the Communist Party has emerged stronger than ever from what appeared to be the gravest crisis in its history. . . . Here is the real secret...
...leisure hours at the movies where the sun is not so ponetrating and where opportunities for prolonged siestas are even more numerous. Six times--gloats the statistician--six times as much money is spent annually in Mexico for the moving pictures as for arena exhibitions. And what does this portend? Are the Mexicans losing their sporting blood that they are now content to sit drowsily in darkened room whereas they were wont to eat bananas and throw the skins at toreadors? In other words--where is their manhood...