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...buck to a dime, you're wrong, says...
Again the coal fields of Kentucky have come into the public notice with the recent account by Waldo Frank and his fellow writers of their treatment by Kentucky citizens. Entirely aside from the question of right or wrong in the coal fields, the action taken by Kentucky in attempting to suppress all investigation of the rumored regain of terror in its coal counties touches on the problem of freedom of the press. Whether the courts and citizens of a state are wise in attempting to defy this principle can be shown by the results in this instance...
...security plan "a beautiful fable lacking a moral." With fine Roman cynicism the Italian delegation whispered around a witticism to the effect that M. Tardieu, facing 57 armed states, had proposed to create a 58th. And that great liberal, cultured Viscount Cecil, said: "The French proposition starts at the wrong end. Let them first tell us what measures of Disarmament they are willing to take...
...deplorable trouble at Shanghai comes at a time . . . when a mistake on the part of Japan will jeopardize her national existence. ... If Japan acts correctly at Shanghai, the powers will conclude that her actions in Manchuria are equally correct. If the powers find Japan is wrong in Shanghai they will conclude she must be wrong in other parts of China...
...Samuel Goldwyn) was adapted by Sidney Howard from Zoe Akins' play. The Greeks Had a Word for It. While the original title might possibly have lead cinemaddicts to suppose that the Greeks had a word for Clara Bow, even more probably it would have caused them to make wrong conjectures in classical obscenity. The plural pronoun can therefore be construed as an especially devious example of the skill with which the cinema defends its patrons from their own prurience. In his other improvements on the Akins play, Producer Goldwyn was guided less by a sense of decency than...