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Senator Curtis (Kan.), Republican whip, has accepted the job of mapping out changes in the rules which will save printers' ink, vocal chords and public patience. He admits the job is a hard one, but is less pessimistic than his associates...
...striding disconsolately down the middle of the road, trying to be tolerant, taking no sides, finding it "all very difficult." His child is stillborn. No link remains between himself and his wife, who betakes herself to rather frenzied merriment with the idlers whom he hates. When he refuses a job as Deputy Director for the South Coast, because he sees the home defense force as no more than an instrument of capitalistic tyranny, Joyce calls him a traitor and leaves him in disgust. The disgust is largely mutual. Bertram goes on a tour through Europe-representing a liberal weekly...
...about May 1 to resume her place as the second largest ship in the world. She will ply the Atlantic passenger trade as a rival to the Majestic, the largest vessel, and the Mauretania, the fleetest. Nearly 3,000 workmen were employed in her refitting-an $8,500,000 job...
...General served as Pershing's supply officer during the war, and is now actively functioning in his accustomed job as Chairman of the Board of the Central Trust Company of Illinois...
...news from the occupied zone has been marked by muddling contradictions. The French declare that the resistance is weakening; then a counterstroke from the Germans persuades them of the unreality of their pretensions. The Germans, with characteristic obstinacy, are getting on with the job, and, with the exception of propagandist squeals, they are not worrying much about who has the upper hand. The truth is that neither side is weakening...