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...Senator Moses and his associates wish to settle the issue within the party before the nomination is made, so as to present a united party attitude to the people at the next election." So runs the Democratic propaganda. Experts in political strategy point out that this is a skilful move to drive the Republicans back into the extreme isolationist position and keep them from stealing League of Nations thunder from the Democrats by advocating the World Court...
...latest move being made by the United States to prevent the spread of foreign control in American fields is the denial of oil land lease assignments to the Roxana Petroleum Corporation. This ostensibly American company, all of whose stock is owned by a Delaware corporation, is in reality under foreign control, since a majority of the voting stock of the holding company is, in turn, owned by the Royal Dutch-Shell combine. The Roxana Company is shut out of lease-holds by the leasing law of 1920, which provides that " citizens of another country, the laws, customs, or regulations...
...imposed on them; but France has been unable to carry out her threat of commandeering the surface coal massed at the pit-heads, owing to the shortage of labor. She has, however, stated that every effort will be made to obtain foreign labor with which to move the coal and coke in the Ruhr...
What American poet so great, so heralded, so powerful that he can move huge audiences of very strong men to tears? What poet is it who is met at railroad trains by the town band? To whom politicians bow? Whose ditties sailors carry in their packets? Whom baseball players revere ? Before whom prizefighters are as little children? "We have no Homer, minstrelling through the land," you reply. Ah, but we have our Eddie Guest, and he cannot be denied...
...would have been impossible to fight through the Civil War without the imprecatory Psalms." Now a large section of the church wishes to abolish such Psalms from their weekly worship. What Galileo said of the world might also be said of religion: "E pur si muove-it does move...