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...rung of Law, hoping the ladder would lead him to the presidency but his party, first calling itself Federalist, later Whig, was almost always out of power, too often for political expedience, upheld unpopular causes: a U. S. bank, peace with England in 1812, the Missouri Compromise, the Fugitive Slave Law. More, his cold dignity repelled warmhearted U. S. crowds. Thinks Biographer Fuess: "It may be that the American people admire, but have a deep-rooted distrust of orators. His very fluency made them wary. He was a man who talked too much...
Horween has made his mark on Soldiers Field. His teams, it is true, have met with a variance of fortune, but he has clearly demonstrated that a head coach does not necessarily have to be a slave driver, and that in spite of spectacular gate receipts and modern front page publicity, the elements which originally made football a sport for the player can be retained. The sanity which he has shown in the handling of his men has made for a healthier situation on the Harvard field, and he has been a fine influence on intercollegiate football in general...
Liberia was founded in 1819 by the American Colonization Society, which hoped to populate it with freed slaves from America's Southern States. It had little effect on slave conditions in America, however, as slaves were born faster than they could be transported. It is estimated that about 18,858 settled in Liberia due to the efforts of the Colonization Society before the Civil War. At the present time, however, opportunities for negroes are so superior in the United States to those in Liberia that emigration is negligible...
...modern education, and the Rotary wheel, there is no other social contrivance in the United States so wide in scope as the present system of Daylight Saving. Twice a year by the simple motion of turning a pair of pointers on a numbered surface, the twentieth-century wage-slave achieves his moment of supreme triumph: he discovers that the clock was made for him, not he for the clock. This Thought should be expanded by a Small Group of Serious Thinkers somewhere, whose shoulders are heavily burdened by the destiny of the Universe...
...That both Warner and Jolson know Jolson's acting limitations is evidenced by two sequences. The first is a flashback to post Civil war days in which Jolson as Gus's grandfather captures a villainous Southern fire-eater and, ahorse, rescues his beauteous young mistress, successfully burlesquing the ancient slave-master tradition. The second is the fade-out?the cast out of character formally grouped on a painted stage with orchestra below and Jolson with his face washed white expressing the wish that his cinema audience enjoyed themselves as much in sitting through the picture as he did in making...