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...could they have chosen one more heartily against Mackenzie King. To keep the support of the potent, close-knit French political bloc in Quebec and Ontario, Mackenzie King has soft-pedaled the question of conscription for overseas service, which in the last months has been brought up with increasing vigor by the all-out-for-Britain citizens of the prairie Provinces and the West. Canadian businessmen oppose the excess-profit taxes, the regulations, the price ceilings that the wartime Government has set. And Canadian labor resents wage ceilings quite as much, cites the cases of many labor leaders and radicals...
...Kansas City Star's able Washington Correspondent T. C. Alford concluded an opinion-sampling swing through Missouri and Kansas. His report: "In . . . the center of the Midwest isolationist belt, people no longer talk about the chances of keeping the United States out of the war but . . . discuss with vigor whether or not this country should enter the war now and get the job over as quickly as possible...
Grace Moore and Tenor Charles Kullman flung themselves about in The Love of Three Kings in San Francisco, collided with a whack. Her shoulder dislocated, Miss Moore shortly met a stage death at the hands of Basso Ezio Pinza, who choked her with vigor, suffered deep scratches on his hands and arms...
...Lathrop Hall, to find that the stresses of Harvard monastic life are duplicated at the Poughkeepsie nunnery, and to eavesdrop on "heifer" sessions-beyond this aspect, "Consider the Daisies" will appeal to undergraduates as a novel of, by, and for collegians. Writing with matured comprehension but with the fresh vigor and enthusiasm of youth. Miss Carrick gives promise of joining the most faithful portrayers of the American scene...
...only the idol of his race but one of the most respectable prizefighters of all time. From the sorry pass to which a series of second-raters had brought it (Sharkey, Camera, Baer, Braddock), he restored the world's championship to the gate and almost the vigor that it had in Dempsey...