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...Since the war, however, we have returned to the three inch gun. The split-trail feature is now being used and we have increased the range of the gun by increasing the muzzle velocity and the weight of the carriage...
...society and politics. He married Florence Pullman, daughter of George M. Pullman (sleeping cars). McKinley offered to make him Assistant Postmaster General but he declined. He lost the Gubernatorial nomination in 1904. Three years later he was elected to Congress and served for about five years. In the Republican split of 1912 he stood by Taft, but not in the rock-ribbed Republican group. His stand was such that in 1916 Roosevelt called upon him "'to assume a position of leadership " and to help align the Republican and Progressive forces. That year he was elected Governor and made a creditable...
Playgoers who were aghast at the announcement that Lionel Atwill and David Belasco had split, will be relieved to learn that the former has not ceased doing things "worth while." He is rehearsing a drama entitled The Heart of Cellini. The action is largely set in the senescence of the historical goldsmith, philanderer, swordsman...
...corollary of successive failures on the part of various Governments to deal with a complex internal situation aggravated by still more complex foreign relations and obligations. The political currents flowing against the sides of the Government barge were strong and numerous. There were the Monarchists, whose ranks were split by the Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach factions; the Communists, whose opposition to the Government was equal to that of the Monarchists; the Democratic and Center Parties, both of whom were a minus quantity so far as the Government was concerned. The cessation of passive resistance was an opportunity for the various Parties...
...inevitably bring up the mention of The First Year. Only this time it's the dozenth year instead of the first. And the crux comes when the wives concerned, growing weary of always having to ask their husbands for another dollar for the milkman, demand a 50-50 split of the family income, if they have to strike for it. They do strike. The husbands, left alone, get egg all over the place and forget to empty the icebox pan. After much farcing the happy reconciliation arrives. Acceptable amusement, demonstrating Miss Roberta Arnold's fine comedy sense throughout...