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...smeared President Harding with mock sympathy. He tweaked and twitted President Coolidge. He first put in circulation the "dammed, drained and ditched" joke on Engineer Hoover. But his gibes were always in loud good humor and after a particularly spirited attack he would stroll off to a ball game arm-in-arm with Republican Leader Watson. Always the smart politician. Democrat Harrison played close to the Brown Derby in 1928, was an early passenger on the Roosevelt bandwagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Prelude to Power | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

..., made brief inconsequential speeches that added no last-minute proposition to the issues. Frank Hague, New Jersey's boss, proudly exhibited the candidate to thundering thousands. Thirty-five hundred Republicans-for-Roosevelt heard him, along with Owen D. Young, from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. Arm-in-arm with Al Smith he marched out before Boss John H. ("For Success") McCooey's cheering cohorts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. After lunching in the Bronx he ferried the East River for his one & only appearance on Long Island. The campaign's grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Homing Roosevelt | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

...churches support both conventions equally, that it memorialized the Northerners for reunion. This, a matter for committee consideration, is not likely to result in any organic union, is at least certain to be a lengthy business. But it resulted in the two leading Northern and Southern brothers going off, arm-in-arm, to barnstorm for friendliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: United Baptists | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...gave Swindler Owen the cachet not only of honor but of friendship with the great. Soon Dr. Owen got Oxford to give him an honorary M. A. He pretended that he already had the rank of Doctor (of Engineering), a rank highly esteemed in Europe.* He went about Oxford arm-in-arm with England's intellectually great and smart. Dr. Owen next persuaded the Ministry of Agriculture that he should visit the U. S., to study advanced methods in agricultural schools. He returned to England with the glad news that in California his wife had stumbled upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Great Swindles | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...legally "privileged," that he might be kept behind bars indefinitely until he would speak. Then Reporter Barr named his informant-Norman Register, secretary to the district attorney-and was set free. Secretary Register, summoned before the Grand Jury, denied giving Barr the story. But as he left the courtroom arm-in-arm with Barr, Register was heard to say: "That's all right, Eddie; it had to come out some time." Straightway a bill was offered in the Texas Legislature, similar to a Maryland statute, to make newsgatherers immune from "duress testimony." In 1929 Senator Arthur Capper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Professional Secret | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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