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...hope for the Presidential nomination only in the case of an open fight, in which his sound but not reactionary record would make him readily available as a compromise candidate. He is not the kind of a man to make a spectacular fight for the nomination. From the standpoint of President Coolidge, the appointment of Mr. Lowden would remove a possible rival. But this fact is publicly known and such an appointment would bear the stigma of a political move. In White House councils this fact may militate against Mr. Lowden's other qualifications?tact, moderation and no mean amount...
...From one standpoint, the whole situation is in the main simply a phase of the regular business cycle; from another, it serves to illustrate the shortsightedness of the mercantile community. The year 1920 should have thoroughly taught the lesson that higher prices mean curtailed consumption. Today the very merchants who sought to stabilize prices in the depression of 1921 are seeking to elevate them to unjustifiable heights. It is true that our merchants have not this Fall laid in the heavy stocks which rested on their shelves when the 1920 boom collapsed, but from the consumer's standpoint this...
...respect to financing foreign trade, London is incontestably more influential than New York, and promises to remain so, even though from the international standpoint Great Britain has not yet replaced her currency on a genuine gold basis...
From a political standpoint the death of Mr. Dillingham is not likely to have many direct consequences. Vermont is as nearly a solid Republican state as there is in the Union. One death is little likely to change its politics...
...speeches I heard I liked best the statement of Archbishop Hayes, read by Father Kelly of the Catholic Writers' Guild. Here, too, was Elmer Rice, author of The Adding Machine. I understand that he is to frame the statement on book censorship from the radical standpoint for the Author's League, while George Barr Baker will draft one on the conservative side. In my humble opinion, political censorship of books is inevitable, though tragic. It is inevitable because of the attitude of certain authors and publishers who definitely trade on the sensational and salacious character of some...