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...simple manner in which Mr. Ford disposed of the great question, Who should be our next President? was typified in one paragraph: "I believe it is the wise and natural thing for the people to agree on the nomination and election of Mr. Coolidge. I am satisfied that 90% of the people feel perfectly safe with Coolidge and I feel, too, that the country is perfectly safe with him. And if this is the feeling of the country, why change...
...Dibble writes in part as a protest against the large mass of American biography-against its "sprawling incoherence," "parochial banalities," "maddening prolixity," "heavy slabs of adulation." His own portraits are characterized by refreshing brevity, a swift, strenuous manner, a sincere endeavor to get at the man behind the legend...
Representative Howard of Nebraska (who affects the appearance and manner of W. J. Bryan), "married at lawful age and is still married . . . . started in religion as a Quaker, but of late years has been in the Episcopal fold . . . former Lieutenant-Governor of Nebraska, holding contemporaneously the higher office of editor of a country newspaper...
...Summer of 1921, Prince Yusupov, whose family was once reputed the "richest in Russia," found himself in financial straits. To raise immediate cash, he had already hypothecated these two historic Rembrandts, smuggled out of Soviet Russia in a manner still unexplained, for the admittedly inadequate sum of 45,000 pounds sterling...
...Keir will continue the starred course, History 43, "Topics in Modern English History" which was started early in the Fall by Mr. Leys and which is given in the English tutorial manner. He will also have charge of Mr. Leys' tutorial students in history...