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...excited, Wets everywhere were. They hailed the Ambassador-nominee as their protagonist, repeated that he is "presidential timber." Nevertheless many a Dry felt that Mr. Morrow's appeal was through his personality, agreed with Funnyman Will Rogers that "he could have run as a Bolshevik...
Henry Ford, Prohibition's prime industrial protagonist, last week found himself required to explain, reconcile and justify his opinion that the 18th Amendment is "the greatest force for the comfort and prosperity of the U. S." (TIME, March...
...Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, proprietors of the big showrooms above Grand Central station, has hitherto specialized in the work of academicians like George de Forest Brush, Herbert Adams, Edwin Howland Blashfield. This year they invited the Downtown Gallery, protagonist of modernism, to arrange a show. The exhibits, totalling 132 paintings, water colors, drawings, prints, sculptures, filled seven of the eleven galleries, will remain until the middle of February. The exhibitors...
Senator William Edgar Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a great Soviet protagonist, acted more directly. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney-General, now Washington attorney for The Aviation Corp. which owns Alaskan Airways, begged him to intercede. He cabled to Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Moscow. At once the Russians, eager to repeat their glory of rescuing the wrecked Italia crew, ordered out three planes stationed within flying distance of Eielson's disappearance. They also telegraphed and radioed Siberian outposts to send out sledge parties...
...Story. Author Aldington lets his audience know at once, as they did at Greek tragedies, that the protagonist is to die at the end. The book begins with the death of its hero. On Nov. 4, 1918, Captain George Winterbourne, exposing himself unnecessarily to heavy machine gun fire, was instantly killed. Attempting to account for that last moment, the rest of the book depicts the life of the hero, of his parents and grandparents...