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...Catholic Action (TIME, June 8 et seq.). His Holiness was getting no satisfaction, receiving no apology from the Italian Government. The world press had dropped the story from front-page headlines to inside squibs. By his 15,000-word encyclical Pius XI stirred slumbering interest as by a mighty trump (though the Italian Government took no visible notice). Presumably with direct reference to Benito Mussolini, the Supreme Pontiff thundered...
...where Eugene O'Neill's dramas were first presented, into a soap box. Only thinly disguised, San Francisco is called Queen City; Thomas J. Mooney is called Delaney. Discarding dramatic pretense, Precedent is a biased record of how a traction magnate has Delaney "framed," how the foes of Labor trump up evidence to send Delaney to jail and keep him there in spite of retrials, rehearings, appeals. In the midst of this great legal struggle, Delaney sits alone, an individual almost forgotten in a confused battle for an ideal. Here, and in the futile closing scene where Delaney sits...
...burgomaster, loathe to be counted out of a deal, doubled Mr. Schwarz, whose aversion to the rules of Work has been fostered by the police commissioner. The mayor then proceeded to trump his own ace by refusing to play with those notorious experts from La Grange Street, forgetting that their highest stake has never been but a few coppers...
...eccentric old Dictator "could not conscientiously resign" until he had caused a new Parliament favorable to himself to be elected (TIME, Nov. 24) by the soldierly expedient of locking up Opposition candidates without bothering to trump up charges against them...
Unlike General Dawes M. Briand does not hold that an embassy is or should be "secondary"' in comparison with a chamber of commerce. He would deplore that a department of commerce should gradually outrank a state department. The trump M. Briand shook down his rumpled sleeve last week is a big red Ace of Diplomacy. But the stakes?a diplomat always plays for stakes?are Commerce...