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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the September primaries, it was planned to make Massachusetts a fall stamping-ground for the Democratic high-lights. "Pat" Harrison, the spell-binder from Mississippi, was coming and other notables. They wanted to defeat Senator Lodge and taste the sweets of revenge, and they wanted to give ex-President Wilson balm for his suffering. But, instead of a Wilson supporter, Colonel Gaston was nominated; the Democrats abandoned their pa and along with them thoughts...
More and more the campaign centers in a discussion of economy which has been caught up in characteristic newspaper fashion as "The One Big Issue". Following President Harding's veto of the bonus comes the statement concerning finances by Under Secretary of the Treasury Gilbert. While additional taxes will spell disaster, he says in effect, there is no alternative if there is persistence in any program of expenditures beyond the limits of the Government's income...
Nevertheless, China must sooner, or later respond to the positive influence of a commercial world which offers itself. The question is, will she gain or suffer thereby? The author barely intimates that commercialism and contact with the West will spell her ruin, even as materialistic progress spelled ruin for the other great civilizations of history. This argument deserves weight, but clearly falls to envisage all the facts. The picture painted of a peaceful country sufficient unto itself falls to show in the background the squalor and poverty of the basic population, the bare existence in normal times and the plagues...
...Crimson will be handicapped by the absence of Captain Burden and Hovey, who will be unable to make the trip, and by the fact that the team has had no chance to practice during the recent warm spell. Gardner will take Hovey's position at left wing and should fill in well, while Lee, Leland, and Wilson will all be present as substitutes. The Second's strongest scoring possibility will rest in the work of Pratt and Butman, who have proven a good combination all season, while the responsibility of stopping the Andover attack will fall upon Dole...
...unusual bill, which this week's is not. As it is, this eleven playlet after the better Hopwood manner (you know where the scene is laid) is worth a hundred "Getting Gertie's Garters" and "Demi-Virgins", and shows what vaudeville can be when it tries to break the spell the mawkish hack writers. Mr. Mason has all the "fat" lines, and he is on the crest of the wave all the time. The rafters were loosened and the audience was left hungry for more...