Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...first performance will be a matinee given at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York. From there the show travels to Pittsburg and then westward. Kansas City and Omaha will be two cities to be visited for the first time...
Trials for the cast and show are now going on and final selections will be made soon...
...England approaches the menacing problems of an industrial age with more intelligence than Americans show, it is due, in part at least, to leadership. We tried to improvise a Farmer-Labor Party this year, or a Bull-Moose program in 1912. Our largest city elected in 1913 a mayor whose record arouses great enthusiasm among experts in municipal government, but for political reasons he is swept to a terrific defeat after four years of intellectually triumphant service. Why? Because there is not a sufficiently large class of trained thinkers who keep the people alive to the important aspects of what...
...commonly thought that the election results show that the people are unanimous that our national expenses should be reduced. But the same people also seem ignorantly to expect that taxation can be immediately reduced in proportion. Yet, when we know that about eight billion dollars in Victory notes, war savings stamps, and treasury certificates of indebtedness will fall due in the next three years, it is plain that we must continue a policy of heavy taxation. Besides our regular national expenses, then, we must meet this added war burden...
Recent financial reports of the English government show a considerable surplus over expenditures with which to reduce the national debt. It is for us to do the Fame: to reduce expenditures and to maintain heavy taxation to pay off our debts as they come due. The present recommendations of the Treasury Department bid fair to do this, if the people can only be made to realize the situation...