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Four years before he was elected to his first public office (Governor of New Jersey ). Woodrow Wilson made a remarkable address to the members of Manhattan's erudite Lotos Club. Last week the Lotos Club again served as a forum for a No. i Democrat-Owen D. Young. Not Mr. Young, as honor guest, but Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the club's president, gave the event a political twist. Introducing Mr. Young as a "public servant," Dr. Butler said: "Whether a public servant receives office or not is accidental, and if that public servant does assume office...
...side. We wish that the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Scribners, were with us. We wish that the Nation, the New Republic, the Outlook (Lyman Abbott must have turned over in his grave when that paper recently became the most liquor-soaked organ in the country), the Literary Digest, TIME, the Forum, the World Tomorrow, or any other of the major weeklies were with us. But they are not. One dares to hope that among them one or two converts may yet be made...
Hamilton, who is a well-known lecturer, is dramatic critic and assistant editor of the "Forum" as well as drama editor of "The Brooklyn" and an assisting editor in the Goldwyn Studios in Hollywood, California. Among his writings on the theatre are "Theory of the Theatre", "Seen on the Stage", "Conversations on Contemporary Drama", and "Problems of a Playwright...
...nominated for the Senate over veteran Democratic Senator Joseph Eugene Ransdell by a 35,000 majority. Senator Ransdell's white goatee quivered with amazemen when "plain people" from "back up the bayous" voted him out of office for the first time in 46 years. Rarely in press or forum had a candidate been as roundly abused as Governor Long. He was called a "disqualified, discredited, inexperienced, erratic, boastful young braggart." Voters were warned that, if nominated and elected, he would "degrade the State at Washington with further clownishness and poltroonery...
...took an oath of secrecy. Before anybody else could mention it, Mr. Huston himself brought up the matter of the. chairmanship. He explained that it would be wise to postpone the whole question until after adjournment of the special Senate session, lest Democrats use that chamber as a forum to discuss Republican party affairs. He lulled his critics into such a peaceful mood, that not one of them dared demand his resignation. They were left under the impression?nothing more substantial? that he would probably get out later...