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When John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln it was not possible to accord him the privilege of explaining his deed to the ladies and gentlemen of a radio audience...
...husband's speech. They took comfort from an editorial in LaFollette's Magazine by Youngest Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, to whom Senator Norris is a political foster-father. Senator LaFollette flayed Nominee Hoover and said : "Governor Smith has made public declarations and definite commitments which are in substantial accord with the progressive view on water power, farm relief, the in junction in labor disputes, corruption in the public service and abuse of the presi dential power in Nicaragua." But he did not actually say he would vote Democratic...
...ethical rights of the question are less obvious. Limitation of a varsity player's career to three seasons is commonly accepted among colleges and the Navy's insistence on it last year was in accord with the policy of most athletic departments. But the record of Army-Navy games in the past shows no such preponderance of victories for the former as the bare facts of the case might indicate, and by withdrawing from their former stand the Annapolis authorities tacitly admit that such matters are domestic problems bas settled by the institution concerned. The Navy suffers no loss...
With the wet views of Alfred Emanuel Smith, Premier L. A. Taschereau, of Quebec, is in accord. Said the Quebec Premier last week: "I cannot make any actual comment upon any of the planks of the platform advocated by either Mr. Smith or Mr. Hoover. However, I might say that I am not altogether insensible to the reference made by the Democratic candidate to the liquor question. When some of my friends in the opposition in the Legislature offered some bitter criticism at the time the Government introduced the Quebec Liquor Act, I replied that before very long our liquor...
Paul Poiret, Parisian dressmaker, last week flayed the indecency of short skirts. Said he: "Parisian dressmakers are forced to admit they are in perfect accord with Pope Pius. . . . Women have lost by want of mystery. . . . Modern woman should wear skirts a trifle longer and more decent...