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...gime is to give clean government to Spain, and from what I have heard from the people, I feel confident that Primo de Rivera has popular approval. I may say that it is wrong to call the General a Dictator, since Spain is really being run by a directorate...
Zona Gale, novelist, poet, playwright, always comes to my mind when a discussion of pacificism arises, because the accomplishment of World Peace with her is so impassioned a crusade. She is the sort of person who does not eat meat or wear furs because she believes it is wrong to kill animals for the luxury of mankind. I should like to have her meet Prof. Grindell-Matthews, famed inventor of the death-ray (TIME, Apr. 21, SCIENCE) as I met him the other morning, and to see the motion picture of his experiments. What would she have...
...addition, an economy which consists not merely in securing a dollar's worth for every dollar spent, but that far less popular form of economy which imitates the prudent householder in doing without the things one wishes but cannot at the time afford. Economy, however, begins at the wrong end when it attacks the pay of government employes, who are justly entitled to pay equal to that they would receive from private employers for similar work...
Imogene meant no wrong. She was simply striving for an honest living. Ziegfeld has blocked her road, because Tinney blacked her eye. The time may come when a chorus girl will be refused honest employment simply because she has married the third or even the second millionaire, or because she has dropped a handbag containing dynamite in a crowded taxi-cab. "What's going to become of us?" conscientious, multimarried chorus girls are asking. And there simply isn't any answer...
Retorted the Ambassador: "I believe that I committed no wrong in the use of the phrase 'grave consequences' contained in my first note to Secretary Hughes; and the evidence of this is that I offered no apology or excuse in my second note, but only explained the term and emphasized it. ... I am inclined to be of the opinion that the American Congress would have passed exclusion legislation even without my use of the phrase...