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...Brien's not a stop-gap for any Mayor. There'll be general acclaim for my re-election next November...
...career, and somewhat overcome by the exuberance of adolescence, for the club was in its twentieth year, H. D. C. produced Michael Gold's "Fiesta," a really excellent tale of Mexican provincial life. In spite of the unusual acclaim it received in Cambridge, the censors declared the play unfit for presentation in Boston, and the show was closed before it had run its allotted number of performances. This came as a great surprise to all those connected with the production, and earnest pleas were made for a reconsideration of the censorship of a play which dramatic critics had considered...
...secretary Richey. Just before 9 o'clock Richey said: "We have conceded nothing yet." Mrs. Hoover was preparing a buffet supper when Jack McDowell, Stanford's alumni secretary, came out and read the message of defeat. After a moment of silence, every one applauded, meaning to acclaim the loser's gallantry. Floodlights on the roof lighted the faces of several hundred Stanford students who now were massing around the house. "S I S S-B O O M-A H. . . . HOOVER!!" roared the students...
...party shall stand or fall in the House of Commons on the principles in which it has faith." "You will tie your hands if you adopt that!" cried Leader Henderson. Hoarse throats shut him up with shouts of "we want to tie your hands!" By a rising vote of acclaim Sir Charles Trevelyan's motion became law unto Laborites. He fired a powder train of resolutions in which the Congress voted last week to: I) Nationalize the Bank of Eng- land and the "Big Five" private banks; 2) abolish the House of Lords as "dangerous and unnecessary"; 3) maintain...
...Governor whose father is Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. Defeated was Charles Robert Crisp, 61, long-time Representative whose late father was Speaker of the House 40 years ago. Representative Crisp, whose heroic efforts to balance the Federal Budget with the 1932 Revenue Act won him wide acclaim, was turned down partly on the charge that, friendly to the "Power Trust," he saddled the 3% electricity levy upon consumers. Nominee Russell, brightest of 13 brothers & sisters, proposes, as a sample of statesmanship, to collect the War Debts by severing diplomatic and commercial relations with Europe and forbidding...