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Education has too long been taken for granted in America. Democratic theory has enshrined it as an indisputable right; but there is no right without duty. It is the inescapable and solemn task of both institutions and individuals to fulfill that duty...
...happened. Faithless will probably leave Miss Bankhead about where she was before. She has a more full-bodied role than in Thunder Below, Tarnished Lady, My Sin and The Devil and The Deep, and a better leading man (Robert Montgomery). Otherwise, the picture is in the Bankhead tradition, a solemn sexual mumbo-mumbo of wealth impoverished and beauty in distress...
Because most of the U. S. press is Republican, most U. S. political cartoons are antiDemocratic. But mass does not make merit. Democrats had little to fear from the stark platitudes of Boston Transcript'?, Cowan, the sketchy banalities of New York's Evening Post's Sykes. or the solemn exaggerations of Philadelphia Public Ledger's Warren...
...uninvited guest had mingled with that company, first amusing them with witticisms but finally enacting a Poe-like "Masque of the Red Death," there would have been havoc throughout the land. Boards of directors would have rushed to urgent, solemn meetings. The stockmarket would have roared downward. Life insurance companies would have faced an emergency. For the guests at Lynnewood Hall last week included not just a dozen or so millionaires but at least 100 of the country's richest men. Among those who broke bread with the Master of the Hall that night were Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank...
Hoosier birth (1867) gave Graham Phillips a natural bent toward politics and writing. College friendship with an ambitious young backwoodsman named Albert J. Beveridge settled him down, helped him choose the goal which he pursued with solemn fixity to his death. The years of reporting and editorial writing under the late great Editors Charles A. Dana and Joseph Pulitzer were a time of learning weapons, storing mental ammunition. As a friend afterward wrote, "He believed that more people would read intelligently and heed the warnings and lessons which he felt inspired to offer through the medium of novels, than they...