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...Maryland's Ritchie, Arkansas' Robinson, Virginia's Byrd, Illinois' Lewis, Tennessee's Hull-had so much as hinted that Governor Roosevelt's candidacy was too far "out in front" to beat. Owen D. Young's friends were working with covert vigor. Almost overlooked in the Roosevelt rush was the fact that a two-thirds majority is needed to nominate at the convention, which means that the leading candidate does not always...
Yesterday was a bad day for the Communists in Boston. Curiously enough, it was a bad day for their arch-enemy, Representative Fish. While the crusaders against capitalism denounced men, ways, and things American with their customary vigor, the appointed defender of American institutions, under the aegis of the V.F.W. Auxillary, gave a fine sales talk for the Federal Government...
...Wide Open Town" is disappointing. It does not nearly approach the gusto and vigor of his former work. Rather, it strikes one as being a carbon copy, slightly blurred at the edges, of "Singermann." The failure this time of the author to portray this particular phase of the American scene is primarily due of the American scene is primarily due to the besetting sin of his reliance on "local color." Mr. Brinig has grown up in the city he pictures, he knows its legends and its individuality at first hand--and he had done nothing more than photograph them...
...There was vigor in the old Lampoon. There was search for rowdy storm and stress, But the dignified new workers Of the lime-light have been shirkers...
With a constantly renewed supply of immature readers added to the mass of mildly educated people in the country, there is every prospect for the continued vigor of tabloids and semi-tabloids. Nevertheless the optimism of such an outstanding journalist as Mr. Lippman is cheering. Post-war feverishness has found expression largely in the metro-politan dailies, and a revival of sanity and restraint in the press would be a hopeful sign for American civilization. It will be interesting to observe the ratio between the Times and the Graphic in the subway cars...