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...begins to be evident that President Coolidge will shortly be harried forth from his sequestered silence by nagging Fords and Pinchots. Even if Henry Ford's outburst over Muscle Shoals defeats its own object, Governor Pinchot's demand for more rigid Prohibition enforcement on the part of the President requires official reply. Although enforcement in Pennsylvania is as much a state as a federal duty,--and presumably the governor knows this as well as anybody--President Coolidge must state his position clearly or lose caste with the large voting population of Prohibitionists...
...object of this regatta is largely to help Coach Newell choose three of the seven 150-pound eights to continue rowing until the week of the Princeton football game...
...Laemmle said that the results of the competition had made him feel amply rewarded for undertaking a venture which had seemed to many people in the moving picture business as "foolhardy." He declared that his object in offering this prize to college students had been to "interest the coming generation of writers and thinkers, the young men and women who stand on the doorstep of life's opportunity, the class of the rank and file of intelligence who can lift moving pictures, if they are so minded, from the mediocrity with which they are threatened to the heights which they...
...object in coming to New York at a time of great stress for me is to take advantage of my friend Dr. Stephen Wise's flattering invitation to address the American Jewish Congress,* presided over by the universally beloved Nathan Straus. I expect to deliver at Carnegie Hall a somewhat lengthy address, entitled Watchman, What of the Night? It will deal with the whole Jewish problem in the setting of the larger world problem. As the only Zionist now left in the world, I shall naturally include the situation that has arisen in Palestine from the failure of Balfour...
When she returned from Russia she was furious at being lodged in a " refuge." " Me, a propagandist, who comes to visit Russia with but one object-to serve her. Par exemple! Really, anti-Bolshevists, had they arranged my trip in order to give me a horror of communistic Russia, would not have done better...