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...Comment on the Presidential campaign of 1928 has begun early, chiefly because of the possibility of a third term for President Coolidge. Last summer, every visitor at White Pine Camp was given a significance by the correspondents; in the autumn, much Coolidge and anti-Coolidge talk reverberated in state and congressional elections. Last week, Frank R. Kent, whose able pen pleases the Democratic readers of the Baltimore Sun, informed the sagaciously militant readers of the Nation that "the real business of this session of Congress is Presidential politics...
Crisis. When Foreign Minister Stresemann returned from Geneva a fortnight ago, bringing important concessions from the Allies†, the Marx Cabinet seemed secure amid generally favorable comment from the press and Reichstag deputies. Those who sought the Cabinet's overthrow had no quarrel with the foreign policy of able Dr. Stresemann. They left him out of the debate last week, and he will almost certainly succeed himself as Foreign Minister in whatever cabinet may be formed. Instead, the storm of opposition burst upon War Minister Otto Gessler, who has ten times filled that post...
...warden had the box on his desk. He showed it with an ironic comment to his visitor. Once the box had contained Prince Albert tobacco; now its contents were more interesting. A little rubber sack. A hypodermic needle. A broken spoon. An envelope of morphin. . . . Drug peddlers, delivering narcotics to prisoners on the island, do not always drop their orders from the bridge. An ordinary postoffice envelope, embossed with the head of George Washington, has a hollow behind the raised stamp...
...business," may have been the comment of Lord Rothermere last week when the Commons passed a bill forbidding the publication of evidence offered in divorce trials. Since the Rothermere papers have fattened on such fare his "genius" must provide a substitute...
...apprentice printer and anonymous author of the articles runs the Courant's circulation up to a dizzy 40, sorely vexing the Rev. Cotton Mather. His brother, out of jail, jealous, beats him. He quits long-nosed Boston for freer, easier Philadelphia, where his articles have excited sympathetic comment...