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...Effectively they dramatized the evils of liquor, exhibited homes broken, lives wrecked by the Curse of Drink. The Wets, on the defensive, got poor publicity. Adoption of the 18th Amendment reversed the positions. The Wets took to the attack, sensationally dramatized the "failure of Prohibition," exhibited the law's breakdown, stressed bloody methods of enforcement. As defenders of the system their own efforts had brought to pass, the Drys lost something of their old aggressiveness, found themselves fighting with blunt weapons...
Tristram Orlander, author whose genius never came to flower, found himself not once but twice. The first time was in Granada, when he was recovering from a nervous breakdown brought on by an unsuccessful love-affair. Just for something to do, he one day inquired for himself at the expensive Hotel Boabdil, thinking he would thus get a sight of the hotel register, see who was there. To his dismay the porter said the gentleman was in and was expecting him, led Tristram to a room. An elderly stranger rose to greet him: it was Tristram himself, but middleaged...
...defeated Republican nominee for President (1912), Kent professor of law at Yale (1913-21). Chief Justice (1921-30). His judicial tendency: toward a cheerful conservatism, trying to keep-up-with-the times without violating tradition. Outstanding decisions: none. Reason for resigning: 111 health (bladder; a breakdown following his brother's funeral in December...
...exact nature of this last word is not quite clear, but Professor Rogers very evidently feels that a serious situation of some kind exists among colleges in general, and at Harvard in particular. He speaks of a "breakdown in the social organization" and although he implies his belief that the House Plan is a step in the right direction and not altogether false, yet he says it is plainly "artificial". In the first place it violates a Harvard tradition not necessarily a good one but nevertheless a tradition--of individualism. In the second place, a system of fraternities...
...quite clear that it is the deliberate intention of that editorial to attempt to make trouble among the American delegates, to discredit our Government before the Japanese delegation and thus to try to cause a breakdown of the London conference. . . . The Washington Post has a full right to oppose a limitation in arms, but I do not believe the American people approve of attempts to humiliate and cause dissension in their Government before representatives of foreign governments...