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...satisfied that Governor Gardner had a logical slant on the cotton question: that he did not "turn his back on the South...
...become a sort of Secretary-emeritus. Undersecretary Mills is politically ambitious. He yearns to sit in the U. S. Senate from New York, provided of course he is not elevated from the sub-Cabinet in the meantime upon Mr. Mellon's retirement. His new geniality is political. His slant on public questions is political. The angle of his cigar is political. But the cigar, and the social product behind it, are still perfecto...
...Flag. Chief Justice Hughes again showed a liberal slant last week when he read the court's decision voiding a Communist's conviction under California's "red flag" law. Yetta Stromberg, 19, ran a children's camp at which youngsters pledged loyalty to a red flag. Under the California statute it is a felony to "display any red flag or other device as a sign, symbol or emblem of opposition to organized government or as an invitation or stimulus to anarchistic action." Declared Chief Justice Hughes...
...Elizabeth's" English eye, naturally optimistic, has been trained by feminine intelligence and living long abroad to take a somewhat sly slant at human beings, even the English variety. At her best moments she reminds you of her late great cousin Katherine Mansfield; at her worst of any Girl Scout burbling beatitudinously. General average: good...
Peggy Bacon, a slant-chinned young woman with a keen eye, a quick brain, confined her satire at the Downtown Galleries last week largely to the critics and dealers of the New York art world. Shrewdly drawn pastels in good color showed Colyumist Heywood Broun towering like a huge bundle of dirty linen over a frail typewriter; Critic Royal Cortissoz (Herald Tribune) scowling over his goatee and cigar at a modernist painting; Murdock Pemberton (New Yorker) bilious in a blue suit; dimple-chinned Henry McBride (Sun) delicately balancing a teacup; and dozens more...