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...Leader Byrns had lost their grip on their party, for the Browning amendment practically nullified the bill's purpose. If the caucus had bound itself to that proposition, President Roosevelt would have been ditched by his own House. But it takes a two-thirds caucus vote to bind. The party leaders, no greenhorns, skilfully shifted their objective, mustered more than the one-third necessary to send every Democrat marching out of the meeting free to vote as he chose...
...half in other expenses-to bankers who had helped the city out of a hole. After the salary cut had been made, Mayor O'Brien began to muse aloud to the Press to the effect that the rest of the reduction was just a "hope" which did not bind the city and that increased revenue from bridge tolls would be "very appropriate." From such talk the impression was inescapable that Tammany was weaseling on its economy promises...
...even though not legal-as to policies and courses of action. . . . The designation of a man or men of such eminence as your telegram suggests would not imply mere fact-findings; it would suggest the presumption that such representatives were empowered to exchange views on matters of large and binding policy. . . . May I suggest that you proceed with the selection of your representatives to conduct the preliminary exploration necessary with individual debtor nations, making it clear that none of these representatives is authorized to, bind this Government as to any ultimate policy. ... I shall be happy to receive their information...
...Schroeder, Jr. 184 *Ian Baldwin 167 *Francis Paul Campaus 154 *Winfield Adelbert Huppuch 150 Theodore Winthrop Stedman, Jr. 110 Jerrold Harold Ruskin 106 Richard Borden 105 George Quincy Thorndike 104 James Russell Leonard 99 Joseph Manton Bradley 98 St. John Smith, Jr. 97 Frederick Myers Dearborn, Jr. 86 Asa Bind Gardiner 85 Total Votes Cast 345 *Elected
...President of Harvard is an executive officer of deliberate bodies, in which decisions are reached after discussion by majority vote. It is character and judgment that are of importance, not his opinions. The decisions he makes bind him. He cannot force his own opinions upon anybody. A university is the last place in the world for a dictator. Learning is always republican. The President must not need to see a house built before he can comprehend the plan of it. He can profit by a wide intercourse with all sorts of men, and by every real discussion on education, legislation...