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Authority. Depending on his temperament, a Speaker may either dominate the House by a smashing exercise of his authority or sink to the obscurity of a mere preserver of order. Last of the titans was
Mr. H. G. Wells has elucidated for the readers of the New York Times-his course of conduct in an agreeable but highly improbable dilemma. If he were standing on a dock with only a single life preserver, and on the one side Pavloff, the famous Russian vivisectionist, were struggling...
Mr. Wells would have changed to a new figure of speech if he had remembered that Shaw at 71 excels in back somersaults from the high springboard. It is to be hoped that the occasion never arrives with Wells in the water and Shaw on the dock: Mr. Wells would...
"I have learned that the German in whom Americans are most interested is President von Hindenburg. He is often compared with Washington, but I believe that he is more like Lincoln. He is not, like Washington, the founder of his country; but, like Lincoln, he is the preserver of its...
Last week, near El Segundo, Cal., the very latest wrinkle in descent was demonstrated-a wrinkle that promised to eliminate a tremendous percentage of the danger-and fear-of aviation. Pilot R. Carl Oelze of the Naval Reserve had the temerity to ascend in his plane to 2,500 ft...