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...counteraccusation. Ellis Island, which receives by far the greater share of the immigrants, has accommodations for only 1,700 at a time. When 15,000 arrive in one day the station is "swamped." Immigration officials accuse the steamship lines of bringing hardships upon the immigrants. In England there are protests about the " brutality " of Ellis Island. Senators inveigh. Steamship officials protest that they are doing their best to mollify conditions under the present...
Osmena, it is thought, may have something up his sleeve. He had got out of the Council of State before the trouble began. If Quezon's protest as Osmena may intend that it shall, the crafty Osmena may be in a position to seize the reins of power...
When Mr. Massingham was deposed from his liberal throne in The Nation, a cry of protest went up from the liberal press - not only in England but in this country. Mr. Strachey, a Conservative in politics but a liberal in journalism, then did an unusual and highly creditable thing - he engaged Mr. Massingham to write for The Spectator. There Mr. Massingham now conducts a column which is headed The Other Side. While Mr. Strachey says one thing in his editorial columns, Mr. Massingham upholds the opposite thesis, and all in the same paper...
...gauntlet to the tradition that a newspaper must give the public what it wants. The Spectator had built up an audience of conservative people, and now these people are served with both Conservatism and Socialism. It is disconcerting to the constant readers of The Spectator, and some of them protest volubly by letter. Mr. Strachey still braves these protestants, and is called a traitor for his pains...
...championship, one of the greatest " feasts of honor" ever heaped on a Georgia table and a resolution of appreciation from the Georgia legislature. Only was there an echo from Alaska missing. Possibly the sight of Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, persuaded Mr. Harding that bunkers are trivial affairs after all. "But," protest the politicians, " he should respect the golfing voters. There are only 54,000 voters in Alaska-mostly icemen! " " Yes," replies the poor golfer struggling wearily around a crowded Sunday course, " there are a million golfing voters in the States- mostly icemen...