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...under the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922, which authorizes him to change duties within limits of 50%. This is the eighth time that President Coolidge has raised the tariff; twice (on live bob white quail and paintbrush handles) he has lowered it. ¶General Humbert Nobile, pilot and builder of the dirigible Norge, was presented to President Coolidge by the Italian Ambassador. Titina, sophisticated fox terrier who had seen the North Pole, accompanied General Nobile, but scurried out of one of the White House windows before greeting the President. ¶Does President Coolidge eat raccoon meat? No. A full...
During his lifetime Harvard has become a national institution. It is still in the front rank of liberal thought, liberal education, and liberal religion. The seeds planted in Cambridge and Boston have borne fruit throughout the land. Dr. Frothingham was one of the great builders of the new era. He has formulated and preached the modern theory of religion not only in his own church, but also in Appleton Chapel. Twice he has served with outstanding success on the Board of Overseers during critical periods in the development of the University. Forward looking courageous, and independent builder on the past...
Joseph Krutch, in an article in the current Nation, inspired by the performance-of "The Master Builder" in New York, points out that Ibsen in his later plays worked under the rule. "My business is to ask questions, not to answer them." It is to be noted that, although he stayed by this idea, Ibsen answered a very pressing question of New York producers last year, and bids fair to do the same this season; to wit: "What shall we play to stave off what promises to be a remarkably dull season...
...Master Builder...
Gallienne scored a success in this Ibsen play last year. A builder of churches, turned bitter against God, concentrates thereafter upon homes for human beings. Fired by the love of a young woman who has sought him out in his childless house, h.9 builds one of these homes with high towers reaching up to the clouds. The master, builder even climbs to the top of his own creation, unfurls the flag at its summit, vindicates his courage before detractors below, before God above, before the woman he loves. His audacity spells his downfall. Miss Le Gallienne is also audacious...