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When Premier MacDonald signed the treaty with Soviet Russia early in August, political prognosticators termed the action "the first note in Labor's funeral march". Perhaps the metaphor was a bit premature, for certainly MacDonald was not yet dead. But if the storm of protest that arose immediately after the document was signed can be taken as a symptom, there can be little doubt that the Government was in a critical position...
...rather lanky girls who chase themselves around and around the stage to register crime and bad government. At least we think it was that, because they continually mentioned the defective bridge, the unmentionable Gas Plant, and the impossible trolley line--so much so that we, who are not a bit, scientific, realized immediately that the town was being ruined by graft. However, much to our relief the "Glendale Observer" editorially besieged the forces of evil to such an extent that Kenneth was forced to speak before a meeting of the townsfolk to defend the editorials which had been dashed from...
...bit of byplay to National Politics took place last week in New York. Republicans and Democrats both held state conventions and nominated candidates for Governor. The situation was this...
George Abbott, recalled agreeably for his comic cowboy in Zander the Great, stepped beyond his depth in the lead. He seemed to manufacture the part instead of living in it. Martha Bryan-Allen gave her usual competent performance as the child; while the single bit of really excellent acting was contributed by Elizabeth Patterson as a black silk mother-in-law of rocky prejudice...
...ungrateful for what Johnson has done for her, but he has made the means of expressing her gratitude difficult. In the give and take of politics, he has lacked the capacity for mutual easements and accommodations with his fellows. And in 1924 his 1912 Progressivism is a bit outworn...