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National figures were few in the closing days of the Democratic campaign. John William Davis kept at it over the radio. James Middleton Cox strove along the Border. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, famed baseballer, repeatedly told Midwesterners to disregard the Wall Street odds. "Don't forget Wall Street bet 3 to 1 against the Yankees in the World Series. Wall Street will be wrong again...
Many a flat joke was made about the next Congress not being "Ruthless" and about this being the campaign of the four Ruths, since Baseballer George Herman ("Babe") Ruth was stumping for the Brown Derby (see p. 9). The three ladies were...
John William Davis, the Democratic nominee of four years ago, was also on the Border. He pleaded with Kentucky to come back to the fold. With him was a surprising, brown-derbied travelling companion, Baseballer George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of the world's champion New York "Yankees." Campaigner Ruth addressed club and school audiences and spoke on the radio. To the consternation of Democratic leaders in rural sections, he related Nominee Smith's leadership in legalizing Sunday baseball. At Louisville, he caused excitement when his burly frame crushed the chair in which he was sitting on the platform...
...William, as Home Secretary, has the duty of being nearby when each royal babe is born, in order that he may officially record and announce the birth...
Neither were camera men flayed on behalf of Elizabeth, Duchess of York or her daughter "Baby Betty," for whom the Duke of York last week bought a new Alderney cow. Just now Duchess and Babe are the two most flatteringly snap-shotted Royalties in England...