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...noble institution which flourishes every year during reunion time in the pool room of the Union had been busily contributing its bit of cheer since 2 o'clock and so Life had already begun when the curtain went up at Rindge...
...week went news that one of 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser's kidnappers had been caught, another identified. Few were the facts which Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation chose to reveal, but they were enough to make the nation cheer for its police, blush for its prisons...
...Downing St. after a longer tenure of power than any other Prime Minister since Mr. Asquith consisted last week of exactly ten frumpy women-the type that can be seen in London waiting for the emergence of any celebrity from Princess Marina to Polly Moran. Thin indeed was their cheer, but, fortunately for himself, James Ramsay MacDonald is a Scotsman. His inner light has always burned brighter than adversity, criticism or contempt. Like all Scots he is the captain of his soul. Last week, knowing perfectly well that the Empire considers him a traitor to the Labor friends...
...asked them last week to support him as Premier by granting his Cabinet not "full powers" but carefully restricted extraordinary power for stated and specific purposes. Even this the Chamber voted with extreme reluctance, so ingrained is French dislike for any executive remotely dictatorial. There was not a single cheer, but thoughtful silence when M. Pierre Laval, the earthy and black-nostriled disciple of Peace-Maker Aristide Briand, arose last week to offer France a Cabinet of his choosing which soon received the Chamber's vote of confidence 324 to 160 with 100 abstentions...
...cheer the writer (possibly subsidized) who disparages Woodrow Wilson, Walter Hines Page, Lord Bryce etc. etc. and who applauds the notorious People's Council, the Pacifist resolutions of 1917, Gum Shoe Bill Stone and all that ilk? This, your favorite writer for the week, also takes a sweep at Teddy Roosevelt, whom he calls treasonable! . . . Let all the patriots of any decade be dressed as punks and fools, let Judas Iscariot himself be painted with a halo. Let up be down and down up, and you have a Millis book and five columns...