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Replied the Victorious One, mystic, wistful: "The proposal to make me President of the Turkish Republic for life runs utterly counter to my ideal. The precedent of a lifetime presidency must never be established! The complete sovereignty of the people is inherent and must always prevail in republican regimes...
...Flag. Simultaneously, Warsaw was host to the East European Agrarian Conference. These commendable commercial pursuits, however, were vastly overshadowed by the political activities of blustering, oath-some Dictator Josef Pilsudski. Last April all the Dictator's shouting and all of his men-including President Ignatz Moscicki-could not prevail upon Parliament to make his brother Jan Prime Minister (TIME, April 7). The best Dictator Pilsudski could do was to get the job for one of his "colonels," Valerian Slavek. Last week he grew weary of eternal bickering and backbiting from Parliament, principally because its parties could not agree...
...concocted for the State Republican Convention by its Resolutions Committee. Outside the meeting room in the Stacy-Trent Hotel, newsgatherers waited excitedly, for in there with the committeemen had marched Dwight Whitney Morrow, nominated fortnight ago to run for the Senate as a Wet (TIME, June 30). Would he prevail upon the State Republican leaders, traditionally Dry in word if not in deed, to make the platform express his revolutionary personal views? If he did, it would be the first time since the passage of the 18th Amendment that its repeal had been demanded by any Republican organization...
...Emil Hulquist, operators of the Chicago Theatre (burlesque), from using the title "Chicago Theatre" for his gaudy nine-year-old, $5,000,000 cinemansion. In the course of the proceedings Mr. Balaban referred to the 250-seater burlesque house as a "shooting gallery," where "females of the grosser type prevail." In defense of burlesque, gallantly replied Emil Hulquist: "There is but one difference between the type of musical entertainment known as the 'revue' or 'musical comedy and that type known as 'burlesque.' Where the female performers are younger and sometimes more beautiful...
...true liberal from his vociferous imitator." The struggle for freedom, says Author Martin, is a conflict of cultural values. Romantic ideas such as Rousseau made popular and hoped to make universal are as inimical to the cause of liberty as any other form of intolerance. Tolerance and liberty can prevail "only so long as the influence of a civilized minority holds sway." Mr. Martin is skeptical, not to say suspicious, of the present trend of social organization. "It is precisely because it seems to be necessary to give up so many social liberties in modern industrial society that mankind must...