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Every minister and college editor from the Atlantic to the Pacific has accused President Coolidge of failure to pursue a definite policy toward Nicaragua. Even a reader of the tabloids could probably explain the grounds of their contention. Surely one gets no evidence of a consistent policy from the utterances of the State Department nor the official spokesman," nor even from the Republican journals of opinion which seek to interpret these Delphic utterances to a misled public...
...near as I can explain it, Gandhi was a god in the eyes of the people. That is what the word 'Mahatma' signifies. Men working on the roadside, clerks in offices, great potentates?all knew Gandhi and respected his immense power. He was the leader of that great anti-British policy of noncooperation which had as its aim making it impossible for England to rule India...
...claims the distinction of being the only duly dicensed woman second in the world. Mr. Tebrinke, nominal head of the family, manages a stable of boxers. These boxers, it is said, clamor to have Mrs. Tebronke in their corner, preferring her to trousered precedent. She knows her job they explain, and brings them luck...
...name the scholarly beneficiaries of its munificence, to the extent of $143,000, for the coming year. Newspapers gave the item the prominence due to anything connected with the name of Simon Guggenheim, onetime U. S. Senator from Colorado (father of the memorialized John Simon Guggenheim, deceased 1922). They explained that the $3,500,000 foundation was to foster research work by young, productive U. S. scholars and artists; that some 600 such scholars applied for fellowships, this year 63 of them being rewarded. But the newspapers made no attempt to explain what the 63 lucky ones would now hurry...
...explain to the little Queen what "bureaucratic" meant...