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...women of Massachusetts have gone back into American history in an attempt to maintain prohibition. Paul Revere once saved the country from the British and his double now rides for the sake of the Baby Volstead Act. But the Women's Christian Temperance Union considers liquor a more formidable foe than the British Army for they have called upon divine supplication to assist their re-vamped Revere...
...their National Commander for the ensuing year. They hung a wreath on him, hoisted him on their shoulders, stomped, clapped, shouted. After many a speech they adopted resolutions petitioning Congress to: 1) prevent Communist activity in the U. S.; 2) build the Navy up to Treaty strength; 3) maintain an Army of 137,000 officers & men; 4) enlarge the National Guard...
...Dominions asked that the Mother Country accept the last half only of this scheme: the wall around the Empire. Within this high wall the Dominions wish to maintain their own low walls, protecting their "infant" manufacturing industries from the competition of Englishmen, Scotchmen, Welshmen. If Great Britain would be willing to make the Empire wall quite high, the Dominions said in effect, then they would be willing to make their little walls quite low. Point: by this arrangement the Mother Country would buy much more in the way of raw materials from her Dominions than at present (because Argentine...
Clearly the harassed Scot did not know his own mind on tariffs last week; but he knew how to get a vote of confidence, maintain leadership of the Party. In one purple passage which few if any of his well-wishers could explain, his splendid voice cried thrillingly...
...novel of Helen Zenna Smith. It is concerned with the activities of an English woman's ambulance unit. Early in the play the atmosphere of reminiscence begins to creep in when Kit (Katherine Alexander), weary and broken in spirit, bitterly denounces the hypocritical idealism that the home folk maintain about the War-suggestive of similar sequences in Suspense and What Price Glory. Also, as in What Price Glory, there is a good deal of hysterical cursing of superiors. And as in Journey's End there is a member of the outfit who is whimpering about, losing her nerve...