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...significance for Mr. Smith. The fact that President Harding had indicated what he wished Governor Smith to do, the fact that Governor Smith did the opposite, and in so doing reasserted the old Democratic doctrine of States Eights, lends an unusual political significance to his act. His friends assert that it makes him certain of the Vice Presidency nomination on the Democratic ticket next fall. Others are equally certain that he cut his political throat. Whichever may be the case, it was an unusually clever move of his to base his action, bound to offend the Drys, on a fundamental...
Said Justice Clarke: " With what I am sure is a proper spirit of submission, I assert that the President has been so busy during the last two years that he has forgotten the record...
...Thomas Doyle, of Baton Rouge, La., disillusioned members of the Kuzbas experiment, assert that in Siberia Lerner boasted that he had driven the fatal " little red wagon" to Wall Street. Beyond the knowledge that he was in New York at the time of the explosion and is a regular member of the I. W. W. there is no evidence against...
...Lasker's influence with the President is commonly spoken of as striking and " mysterious." Recently two reliable political journalists, William Hard and Mark Sullivan, took occasion to make emphatic denial of this common conception. Mark Sullivan, indeed, went so far as to assert absolutely that President Harding himself was solely responsible for bringing up the ship subsidy proposal-that Mr. Lasker merely formulated its details and pressed it in accordance with the President's desire...
...increasing number of fume-emitting motors, according to public health officials, has made the Americans a race of blood-poisoned nervous wrecks. The nation is already half saturated with cars, and last month more were made than in any previous month. What dauntless courage is fostered in Detroit to assert that every man, woman, child, and college student will throw away their old cars for a new Ford...