National Affairs: Personification

Who is the contemporary Personification of the Spirit of America?

Some might say Calvin Coolidge, ex officio.

Some might say ocean-daring, self-effacing Charles Augustus Lindbergh.

Perhaps an authority on the subject might be Will H. Hays, a man who has known the dominant political party of the U. S. from bottom to top; who is an Elk, a 32° Mason and an elder of a dominant U. S. church (Presbyterian) ; the man who reigns magisterially over a dominant U. S. industry (cinema). Mr. Hays helped open a "social club" for the cinema trade in Manhattan last week. New York's Mayor, trig, glib James...

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