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Charitable observers suggest that the Conservative party in England is suffering from midsummer-madness for some of its leaders are preparing to embark upon a course which would certainly dilute the democratic element in its parliamentary system. Nothing short of a remodification of the House of Lords is proposed...
...chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. That is the only motive to which they ever give any strong and lasting reaction. No newspaper can be a success which fails to appeal to that element of our national life...
...meeting held in the Faculty Room of the Union last night the Italian Club of the University was addressed by Vitorio Sigfrido Fago of Rome on the present needs of Italy and the activities of the Fascisti element, Mr. Fago himself was an organizer of this young group. In his speech, Mr. Fago advocated Mussolini's ideas and policies and stated that he alone could help Italy...
...French entertainment may come and French entertainment may go, but the Russians go on forever. And for all that Manhattan cares, this particular Russian troupe can go on back to Leningrad and stay there. They delivered pale entertainment fashioned precisely on the lines of the Chauve Souris. A certain element of soothing saturnine melody they delivered, very little humor and no novelty...
...started in 1901 by a bishop of the Re-formed Episcopal Church and entitled Current Encyclopedia, later The World Today, was acquired by Publisher Hearst in 1911. In 1912, it became Hearst's International, still devoted to current events but with an admixture of fiction. The current events element was gradually replaced by ax-grinding articles?now for Matrimony, now for Health, now for the White Collar Ideal, now for Judaism. In this it took over the crusading functions of the Cosmopolitan (founded in 1886 and bought by Mr. Hearst in 1905), which in 1912 became purely a fiction magazine...