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Hiram Johnson, high priest of all irreconcilables, declared in his first speech after returning to the U. S. from Europe : " I suggest to my conservative brethren that recent events indicate they must choose whether progressive things shall be done in a conservative way or in a radical way. You may have to take progressivism or radicalism will take...
...major leagues. McGraw craves a Semitic sensation around his Manhattan ballyard. He craves one to the extent of offering, publicly via a newspaper syndicate, $100,000 for a star Semite. He points out that " 50% of the fans are Jewish." These fans have seen many diamonds on their brethren and the inference is that, conversely, they would like to see many of the brethren on the diamonds...
...headquarters at 30th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, marched to the room of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, demanded to see the files of that office. The Board of Managers of the Mission Society (liberal to the core) held a stormy four-hour session with their Fundamentalist brethren (conservatives absolutely), and finally refused to open their files. The Board of Managers found that there were no specific, written charges against Baptist missionaries in the foreign fields, but only vague charges of unorthodoxy. Since the file contained many personal and intimate communications from missionaries, they refused to open them...
...smoke shiny Dunhill pipes, and usually keep their dark suits faultlessly pressed. But, on the other hand, one sees a large number of indistinguishable individuals, whose shoes are not shined, who do not own fur coats, and who carry rather more books under their arms than their more aristocratic brethren. This type is apt to be scrawny, diligent and sincere. But it is unfair to speak of types. No one individual ever conforms to his type. If you want to see us as we are, you must come and live among us. We are really human and therefore really indescribable...
...people are beginning to prefer to stay at home with the electric fan and a highball rather than perspire before the most thrilling of theatrical performances-now, in fact that summer is icumen in and the cut-rate ticket agencies are ready to cry " Cuckoo! " at their more expensive brethren-it is not out of order to consider some aspects of the season now moribund. The outstanding fact would seem to be, at first sight, the unquestionable success of an English dramatist, William Shakespeare, upon the American stage. New York has seen Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet break all their...