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...will by no means be large enough to effect any sort of major change in Prohibition policy. But the eyes of their leaders are looking for results not in the 72nd Congress but in some Congress to follow, perhaps ten Congresses from now. Men like Nominee Morrow expect no sudden revulsion of public opinion on this issue but rather a gradual grinding down, seat by seat, such as the primaries of 1930 have already shown to be in progress, of the Dry Congressional Majority...
...victory last week Nominee La Follette went to the family homestead, Maple Bluff Farm near Madison, there acted as best man at his Senator-Brother's wedding (see p. 56). The bride: Rachel Wilson Young, since 1924 secretary to the Robert La Follettes, ? father & son. So sudden were the marriage plans that the Senator had to obtain special abrogation of the Wisconsin five-day application...
...course of the operetta has its normal ups and downs until the beginning of Act II, when all of a sudden blond, curly-headed Mr. Robertson starts a rough & tumble fight with Mr. Clements over the favors of Miss Terry. This event helps to differentiate Nina Rosa from its operatic contemporaries. It is really a swashbuckling, galvanated musical drama, of the sort which appeals to a faintly sadistic expectancy on the part of its spectators...
...minor refinements salubriously included in this production was a softening of the very sudden affection of Sebastian for the lovely Olivia. The picture of Olivia given to Viola is left upon a bench by that dissembling young lady from whence it is picked up by Sebastian and immediately the beauty of that lady (Olivia) arouses obvious amorous feelings. After this display of sighs and the attending languishing looks, what follows does not seem quite so impossible...
...dark thought: Secretary Mellon apparently does not anticipate any such sudden upturn of U. S. business in the next six months as would reproduce the "tight money" situation and a marked increase in the rate of interest the Treasury must pay for cash...