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...undertake the task lightly," said he, "but it seemed to afford an opportunity for service. . . . We want everyone who has any ideas for bettering the motion picture to come in through the Open Door and tell us his ideas about it. . . ." Will Hays sat as tsar of moviedom like Judge Landis in baseball, yet saw people, listened. "I believe," said he, "in the personal relationship of man, the expression of personality, and above all, keeping the human element-the heart touch-in everything...
...equally long standing imposture that the French are seriously hard pressed by the rebellious Druses and Arabian tribes. The status quo continues to lie betwixt these untruths. The French are policing and mopping up Syria but at a cost in gold and blood which France can ill afford...
...Some Republican Senators of force and influence, I am informed, have expressed the belief that Colonel Smith, if elected United States Senator by Illinois voters, will not have the slightest chance of being seated. "What should Republicans of Illinois do in this emergency? Clearly they cannot afford - the National Republican Party cannot afford - to permit Colonel Smith's perverted ambition to lose a seat in the Sen ate to the party and to the National Administration. "If Colonel Smith doesn't accept the inevitable and resign, the Republican voters should place in the field as a protest candidate...
...rubber tires. The finding of these experts will assist Chicago's industrialists as well as New York's, in assembling a record of the material ascendancy of mankind, a record that is to be made practical rather than theoretical, with many work ng models of machinery, to afford inventors an industrial laboratory...
...whose unfounded wrath we can afford to ignore and whose malicious insinuations we can afford to pass by. It would seem that if they have anything to say of a people whom they once hailed as their unselfish deliverers, they at least should speak the language of truth and graciousness. Their statement that we are trying to undermine the independence of France, or that somebody wants to buy France, approaches the absurd. . . . "This constant charge of injustice and usury on the part of the United States is simply not only unfounded in fact, but dishonest in purpose." In France, newspaper...