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...produce a happy ending, which seems convincing, than a tragic one. Here the plot and characters are convincing enough, but as in so many last acts, there seems to be a faltering and as labored effect to tie together all the loose ends. The action there goes on in retrospect in the mind of Bruce, and as I read this stream of memories I felt that the author was perhaps groping for something that he had not quite found. Also, at the very end the shifting of emphasis to the part fate has played in the life of Bruce...
...away in the President's recollection seemed the start of his climb to the White House. In retrospect the years as Secretary of Commerce were placidity itself. The Mississippi flood of 1927 furnished the immediate drama necessary to begin Hooverizing for the Republican nomination. So easily were Hoover delegates to the Kansas City Convention rounded up that the slogan "Who But Hoover?'' became irresistible logic, vanquished the "allies" (Watson, Curtis, Lowden et al) before the voting began. The Secretary of Commerce was nominated on the first ballot...
...cramming but that type of test is here, at least, happily tending to disappear, giving rise to questions demanding more comprehensive, integrated knowledge. A third feature of examinations is the forced review of the course as a whole, which they necessitate. Again and again men will find that this retrospect gives unity and meaning to the subject that had been impossible to grasp during the weeks of more segmented study. Daily Princetonian
...lawns about the Capitol at Hartford. What made the crowd a multitude and set it to tumultuous noise-making was the appearance of an ex-heavyweight world's champion garbed in the full regimentals of a Marine Corps Major serving conspicuously on that Governor's military staff. In retrospect most observers agreed that Major James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney with his dress saber and gold braid stole the inauguration from Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross with his fawn spats and his red ribbon of the Legion of Honor...
Labor. Secretary James John Davis, preparing last week to surrender his office to a successor, might be pardoned a sentence or two in retrospect. He began: "From 1921 to 1930 it has been my privilege to have served . . . under Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, during a most important period in the industrial life of our Nation. . . . Let me briefly mention some of these changes. . . . There has been a gradual decrease in working hours and a betterment of working conditions, with increases in wages . . . with the consequent benefits in the way of better homes, improved standards of living, better schools, civic...