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...cause of our being in the present condition," he said, ". .. is the [U.S.] loan and the conditions under which it was accepted. It provided easy money. It destroyed our prospect of reconstructing our economy on sound lines. These lines entail the development of our Empire potentialities with speed and vigor...
...loving, free-swinging cousin, Adolph B. Jr.,*had tended to hog the limelight of the tabloids, but John and Lou Dell won through last week with a knock-down-drag-out fight in the middle of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Boulevard. While the Spreckelses whaled away with enough vigor to leave each other bruised about the head and ears (see cuts), crowds gathered and rooted. But the finish lacked punch. "It was all my fault," cried Lou Dell. "All right, honey," comforted Spreckels, "I don't care ... I know that we shouldn't be doing this...
...explains it now, Editor Morrison never really gave up his pulpit: "I was simply acquiring a larger pulpit." From the first, the distinguishing characteristic of the Century under Morrison was its intellectual vigor. It rose to its present circulation (40,000) in a time when Protestantism was so mired down in social reform that it tended to forget theology-a time when the intellectual world often looked on religion as a misty-minded form of escapism. In such an era, the Century dared to speak of Christianity as a way of life, and stuck to the truths of Christian gospel...
...years ago Louisville Publisher Mark Ethridge made a realistic appraisal: "I have always felt that those who said [the Tribune's] great hold came from comic strips and other features were wrong: it possesses an animal vigor. . . ." Out of the side of its mouth, the Tribune proudly accepted the tribute: "Comes the dawn. It ain't Orphan Annie. It's the hair on our chest." The editorial staff has a talent for translating the Colonel's often pompous edicts into gutty, readable prose...
...Whit Burnett left garrulous Ilka Chase speechless when he told her that her In Bed We Cry was "written from the groin." Rockwell Kent and James T. Farrell began a celebrated feud on the show. Dorothy Thompson ripped into Author Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Germany Is Our Problem) with such vigor and at such length that the moderator had to reach over the table and grab her by the arms to make her shut up. She sheepishly admitted: "I guess I am getting old and can't stop talking...