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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, the man without whose support Mr. Lowden cannot hope to enlist his own state delegation, continued hostile to Mr. Lowden. Mayor Thompson has enormous admiration for President Coolidge. Last week, Mr. Thompson's comment on the Coolidge statement was a clownish mixture of shrewdness and absurdity: "Well, I'll vote for him anyway...
...modernize the U. S. S. Oklahoma and Nevada but forbade using any of the money to increase the range of their guns. Up stood Fred Albert Britten, two-fisted Illinois Republican, member of the Naval Affairs Committee. He set forth that 13 of the 18 U. S. battleships cannot shoot as far as can 20 of Britain's ships, ten of Japan's; that to elevate the Oklahoma and Nevada guns to give them the same range as British and Japanese guns, would not contravene the spirit of the Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty (1923). Other
...made close inspection of the League committee's findings, noted a certain fact. Then, cried he, in an impassioned address to the Council: "This mass of information appears to have been gleaned from self-confessed exploiters of women or from other persons of such dubious morals that their testimony cannot escape suspicion...
...shade more licence in this respect. But the writer at least will not quarrel with him. With admirable good nature he has attempted to be all things to all men. The Puritan is given, in the ballad of Sir Brazen-pants, a story with a moral; the classical scholar cannot fall to derive satisfaction from the Christmas Version of "Times Danaos": while all must be stimulated by an entirely new and hither to unpublished drawing of the Widener Library. Prospective philanthropists may learn much from a well-escented study in benevolence...
Since it is avowedly "American", even containing slang expressions which had their American heyday some four years ago it cannot be taken as the English counterpart of the Lampoon. The English, however, should also be warned that the Lampoon is far from the typically American undergraduate comic publication. For such examples one must seek one of the many professionally collegiate periodicals...