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...committee assignments (especially Foreign Relations, Agriculture). He is even chairman of one minor committee (Printing). Theoretically the most independent man in the Senate, he can generally be found lining up with the Insurgent Republicans on economic questions. As a Senator he represents a bookish type who carries no flaming banner of Liberalism pellmell into the midst of a political fight. His largest single legislative accomplishment was getting through a bill providing for a 9-ft. channel in the upper Mississippi with an appropriation...
...greatest joy is that practically all of the comment which suggests a presidential candidacy for me is based upon the need for a revived liberalism and a refreshed idealism in the country. To that cause I am deeply committed and for it I want to fight, whether carrying a banner or marching in the ranks...
...decree of the de Valera Government 20 prisoners were set free before noon. Loudly cheered by the mob, they rode away in motor cars bearing banners, WELCOME HOME, PRISONERS! As soon as ex-Prisoner Frank Ryan got home he restarted his Dublin paper The Republic, demanded that the two Irelands be proclaimed one. Up hundreds of Dublin flagstaffs went the banner of the illegal and unconstitutional Irish Republican Army...
...extraordinary that Capone should have been interviewed in his cell. But next day Hearstpapers everywhere splashed the interview over four columns, in some cases under screaming eight-column banner headlines. For the interviewer was no less a journalist than Editor Arthur Brisbane...
...Alfonso's manifesto, declared authentic by Count de Romanones, "Spaniards: For nearly a year I have suffered in silence as much as humanly possible and God alone knows that only a man born a Christian King and gentleman could know how to suffer such pain. . . . In raising my banner my intentions are not to divide but to unite all groups of Spaniards and I say to them: My flag is the same as always, red and yellow, and holy and blessed to which I pledged my life as did millions of Spaniards-a flag that goes with me wherever...