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...Tangiers dispute now rages be tween France, Britain, Italy, Spain ; some other nations have ancillary interests. The bone of contention is: Who will govern Tangiers on the north Moroccan coast, now under international control? For various reasons the Powers have never been able to settle this question and the dispute has lasted intermittently since 1906 (TIME, July...
...side Caleb Gurney, a character who, but for the pathos of his position and the understanding of the author, would be simply a type "wind-and-rigging" sailor; and on the other the men of country clubs and golf bags, who give libraries as one gives a bone to a dog. Caleb, of course, is foredoomed to defeat. But his end is fully as glorious, and quite as symbolical, as the final plunge of Captain Ahab's ship in "Moby Dick...
...like the President's, become more difficult year by year. He is considered virtually public property. Mr. Harvey may not have been born a diplomat, but that does not excuse be criticism which he received for the wrinkled lapels of his dinner-coat, or the unbecoming appearance of his bone-rimmed spectacles. By all means the foreign minister should do his almost to represent his country creditably: but even he should be pardoned for an occasional slip...
...Scott C. Bone is Governor of Alaska. He was once a Washington newspaper publisher. Wallace R. Farrington is Governor of Hawaii. He owns the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Both were appointed by Warren GK Harding...
Pennsylvania is an important segment of this belt and the very fact that the Prohibition law is there so violated makes one doubt Governor Pinchot's opinion that the majority of his people want to be "bone dry." At any rate when a state enforcement law exists in Pennyslvania, his exposition of conditions there reflects at least as much upon himself as upon President Coolidge. By his speech he seems to have laid himself open to the counter attack of "Practice what you preach...