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...great matter on which his stand seems to be dubious, however, is the World Court. Will he advocate it strongly? Will he present the question but not press it? Will he ignore the issue? There is no unanimous answer to these questions, which seem to be the most important of all. It seems that Republican leaders are afraid of the issue because it might involve against them anti-League of Nations sentiment. Senator Watson, in listing the probable questions on which the President will speak, avoided the World Court. Secretary Weeks declared it would not be an issue because...
...President, however, is doubtful about the proposition of having a press agent, believing that it would not be approved by the country and that the director's functions would degenerate into propaganda rather than present the Administration's policies authoritatively. It is believed that the plan was originally broached by Mr. A. D. Lasker, Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, who formerly was head of Lord and Thomas (advertising firm) in Chicago and had charge of Republican advertising during the 1920 national campaign...
...Billings Jr., Editor-in-Chief of the Red Book, announced that their organization had been completed, and all contracts concluded. The Andover Press has agreed to do the printing for $1881, a price several hundred dollars below all other bids, and the Electric City Engraving Company will make all the plates...
...less fertile in finding and interested in following expedients for peace, even these whose seeking could bring only honor. Neither General Edwards nor any other militarist can point to the time when the United States has dishonored itself by endeavoring to preserve peace, although the press and the propagandists of many past cras have blazoned for war on what then seemed to them the best of grounds. "Fifty-four forty or fight" thrilled thousands in the forties, but the fact remains that for seventy-five years our northern boundary has run along parallel forty nine to the entire satisfaction...
...have yanked him onto a pedestal and coated him with a plating of austerity because he has vast power. If they only would think of him as WARREN !" In his series of articles on American newspapers, appearing in The Nation, Oswald Garrison Villard last week described the Hearst press. Journals previously treated have included The Kansas City Star, The Public Ledger (Philadelphia), The New York World, the Jewish Forward...