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Morris Hillquit, the Latvian-born Manhattan lawyer whose political history is that of the U. S. Socialist party since 1888 (when he was 19), made a "keynote" speech attacking the corrupt, reactionary Republicans and Democrats. "Only a party like ours," he said, "can be relied on to cleanse this immense cesspool of political corruption...
People who like coincidences were pleasantly shocked to learn that nominee Thomas was born in Marion, Ohio, in 1884, the year that Warren Gamaliel Harding became a cub reporter on the Marion Star. Should the Socialists do any electoral "cleansing" this autumn, Mr. Thomas will doubtless be sung by Socialist poets as a savior whose birth was portentous, if not miraculous...
...Born in Salzburg in 1756, Mozart began to compose music at the age of six. His best known operas are The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute...
...Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey L. Waddell (Miss Mary Catherine Hughes) a son, on the sixty-sixth birthday of his grandfather, Charles Evans Hughes; at Manhattan...
...Born. To Spinster Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, famed militant suffragist, a son, Richard Keir Pethick; in December; at Woodford Green, Essex, England...