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...President himself on preparing for his Western trip was forced to consider two ends: 1) the political situation in the West, which Republicans hope he will bolster up for them; 2) his World Court proposal, which has received knocks from many Westerners of his party. The problem was to conciliate them and to dissuade them from opposition to the World Court...
...England a retaliatory bill to make it compulsory for ships entering British waters to carry liquor was killed in the House of Commons. The ministry was " too busy," however, to take up active consideration of the ship-liquor problem...
...will pay what interest 1 please, I will give such security as I think best and I will repay when I feel like it.' If I did, I wouldn't get the money."?William Randolph Hearst, discoursing on the recognition of Mexico and on the problem of how Mexico is to borrow needed capital...
Literarily he has not. For himself, that is his problem; for his readers, they deserve better at his hands than to be disappointed; for his genius, it is of too high a Quality to be abused. We have always maintained, and always will, that no one should burst into print with what is not his best; and the author of "The Powder of Sympathy" will agree with us that he can do better than he has in this case. A writer who can compose charming verses, good poetry, delectable essays, and sincere novels ought to think hard before...
...many critics, after hearing of Hubbard's injury, supposed it would be. Coach Muller feels that the eight is going almost as smoothly now with Hobson at 5 as it did previously, but the question of putting dash and vim into the handling of the sweeps remains an acute problem--a problem upon the solving of which rests to a large extent the outcome of Friday's contest...