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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...others." At this the farmers nodded sagely. Not so the pressmen. They, more canny critics, immediately began to reflect upon Mr. Reed's latest remark. In 1922 ex-President Wilson, irate because the Demo-crat Reed had helped smother the Versailles Peace Treaty in the Senate had written a letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in which he said:". . . [Reed] is incapable of sustained allegiance to any person or any cause. . . has forfeited any claim to my confidence that he may ever have been supposed to have. ... [I] will never willingly consent to any further association with...
...wrote a fine tragedy, Devils, which two years ago perished of neglect. ?The play had successful short runs last season in Philadelphia, Washington, Boston. It was conceived and written originally by Frank C. Reilly, whose regular business is electric signs, and rewritten by Cosmo Hamilton, British playwright. More than 20 years ago, tall De Wolf Hopper appeared in a woeful musical comedy based on the Pickwick Papers...
...book has been under preparation for seven years. It is lavishly illustrated with pictures of towns and old chateaux and provides what was called "a synthesis of France past and present." The preface is in two parts, one written by M. Poincare, the other by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. In it Marshals Foch, Joffre, Petain, Lyautey, Franchet d'Esperey, pay tribute to the military virtues of the Commonwealth armies. And there are messages from President Gaston Doumergue, onetime Premier Georges Clemenceau and many another French notable, as well as some poems by the Countess Mathieu de Noailles. The book ends...
Crime. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes of New York stated the view of crime which underlies the drastic criminal code written by him and lately enacted in his state. "Crime as a problem is mainly concerned with the hardened repeater ... an organized business comparing favorably with the methods employed by our best concerns. . . . The modern bandit shows no mercy whatsoever. . . . These Baumes laws have been passed in order to put real backbone into the work of the judiciary...
...50th year, among the authors of all Europe. One series is biography?spiritual portraits (of the type done by Gamaliel Bradford in the U. S.) of Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievsky, Nietzsche, Tolstoy (so far). The second series, to which the three stories in this volume belong, consists of novelettes written for the sake of studying intense types of men and women under the microscope of psychology, in which Dr. Zweig is a scientific as well as an artistic adept. The five volumes so far completed in this series have sold about 260,000 volumes to date in Europe...