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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pond was written by two astute dramatists, A. E. Thomas (Come Out of the Kitchen, Only 38) and George Middleton (The House of a Thousand Candles, Potty with a Past), husband of Fola La Follette (pioneer Lucy Stoner, daughter of the late Senator "Fighting Bob" La Follette). Their goal was anti-rakish, antiseptic fun, and they achieved it. The heroine is a mid-western lass who hungers for romance and esthetics. In Venice she tumbles for an insolvent Frenchman whose family dates back to Charlemagne, who would innately prefer Santa Maria della Salute to the First Methodist. Her rubber-company...
Philip A. S. Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., went to a ship, the Virginia (Panama Pacific Line), the largest steamer ever built in the U. S. (thirtyfour thousand tons). He went to look, not to ride; the vessel will not operate until December...
...thousand pages could one print the speeches and tracts which Dr. Bratt has poured forth during the past decade and a half, striving always to keep Sweden in the middle road of individual liquor control. The last straw vote of Swedish prohibition societies (in 1922) showed that the 1,800,000 Swedes who wanted total prohibition in 1909 have dwindled to 889,000; while the cohorts of Brattism have swelled from 20.000 to 924,000. Thus the fight is just beginning...
Special home receiving sets are now so numerous (between two and three thousand) and this visual experimenting so important that last week O. H. Caldwell, of the Federal Radio Commission, urged his associates to encourage it by all possible regulations...
...chanting of 0 Valiant Hearts Who to Your Glory Came! Finally, when soft, repressed sobbing had become general, the Primate of England cried, referring to the War: "Was it all worth while? Here at this gate let there be no faltering in the answer, 'Yes, a thousand times...