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...late Selden P. Spencer for the Republican Senatorial nomination in Missouri, but lost. The next year President Harding made him a director of the War Finance Corporation, from which he was advanced to Assistant Secretary of War. Since last Spring he has been Acting Secretary of War. His prompt handling of the "air troubles"-a request for an impartial inquiry, which has extricated the Administration from a difficult position-is said to have been the deciding factor in his latest elevation...
...early public theatres, the origin and characteristic of the Elizabethan "private" playhouse, the influence of the "decor simultane" on early court staging, the principles of early dramatic collaboration and stage lighting. Mr. Lawrence will then take up its rise and progress from 1590 to 1800, the principles of early prompt-book making, early playgoing customs, the mystery of the Restoration procenian doors, and the characteristics of Elizabethan acting...
International Relief. A "preparatory committee "presented a draft ot a statute for an International Relief Union of which governments and national Red Cross organizations would be members. It woulc coordinate international relief activities so that prompt and efficient relief might be given in case of a national disaster in any country. It would also study means ot preventing floods, famines...
...Mason was prompt in his acceptance, saying: "I am deeply conscious of the honor conferred...
...village was not too small to hold a great and terrible hate. There lived one Grachev, a moujik (peasant), consumed with bitterness. He alleged that, when the land had been distributed several years ago, his fellow peasants had "played him a trick." He, irate, was prompt to swear vengeance...