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Shortly it appeared that the Liberals were reluctant to follow leader George into a situation which might restore him to all his old prestige if the panacea "worked"; and might brand the Liberal Party as a parcel of radicals if the measure failed either in Parliament or later. As always the wily George threatened and yielded adroitly. He swore that he would resign from the party and go "out into the wilderness." He cajoled his old follower, Sir Alfred Mond, a bitter foe of land nationalization. At length he yielded, just soon enough to secure notable concessions as a reward...
...great athletes to use their names to promote business projects is an accepted tradition of U. S. sport. Harold Grange recently, it is reported, accepted $1,000 to say a certain brand of cigarets was good, although he saved his self-respect by refusing $10,000 which was offered him if he would say he smoked that brand. Honus ("Hans") Wagner, bowlegged shortstop, ran for sheriff in a Pennsylvania county. William T. Tilden found that he could get stories into magazines, although even his best friends agreed that his literary proficiency was none too good. Last week on an inside...
FORTY YEARS OF IT-Brand Whitlock-Appleton ($2.50). Memoirs, politics and public life in the Middle West, which William Allen White describes in a brief preface as "an adventure in easy reading and high thinking...
...wealthy business men can fill their lockers full of liquor and boast in company about how much they have and the brand they have and not be molested, while the penitentiary is being filled with poor devils who have neither friends nor money, who have been found guilty of having a pint 'on the hip' or making a little liquor for home consumption-then, indeed, when all these things happen justice becomes a mockery and the law becomes a stench in the nostrils of all law-abiding people...
...religion that does not have a hell is a failure. Just as soon as one brand drops its hell, its adherents leave it for another that possess one. Our hell-that is, the hell of the medical profession- is cancer...