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Republicans have almost, if not quite, forgotten that their convention at Cleveland is to nominate a Presidential candidate. They are discussing, but very unconvincingly, Vice Presidential aspirants. The only definite opinion about the man to be put up for Vice President was that he should be a Westerner, preferably a far-Westerner...
...just about forgotten that vaudeville is a form of entertainment, and had become almost content with going to the Copley once in a long while and reading the New York criticisms between-vacations. But there seems to have been a lot of publicity for vaudeville lately--a big article all about the Industry in the Satevepost; the notorious Heywood Broun recently driven to the wall by his own contribs and forced to admit that some vaudeville is pretty good; and that story about the lady in the hospital who, on realizing she had missed a whole bill at Keith...
...Republican party under present leadership has forgotten the principles upon which it was founded and become a party of hypocrisy and deceit. ... Its record lies in a wreckage of broken promises and repudiated pledges. . . . There never was such a flagrant betrayal of party promises, such a complete failure to solve present-day problems. . . . Not only have they attempted to increase the cost of living . . . but this Ad ministration has given encouragement to every effort to reduce the wages of the wage-earner and to in crease the profits of the conscience less gouger...
...ridiculous. Yet Mr. Johnson, as he has shown in his delightful reminiscences, was carrying out a policy prearranged with Mr. Wilson, of treating the Italians as children, lovable or naughty. The measure of his success is the extraordinary reversal of Italian sentiment towards the U. S. Fiume was forgotten. The bitterness subsided, Americans were respected, for Ambassador Johnson showed that he could be firm...
...this must vanish into the limbo of forgotten rites. The conviction of the Princeton Borough Council that where there is smoke there must sooner or later be fire is undeniably sound; insurance companies will breathe more freely, and so, one imagines, will the laboring pianist who plays the Wedding March during the death of the heroine. But for those children of Old Nassau--past, present, and future--for whom the rolling smoke cloud has been both a memory and a promise, the edict means the snapping of one more link in the connecting chain...