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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lowden's candidacy for 1928 was really announced in 1924. It cannot be said to date back to 1920, when Mr. Lowden was robbed of the nomination by his managers' letting their lavish expenditures for him in Missouri become widely advertised. But in 1924, Mr. Lowden did what only one man ever did before. He refused to run for Vice President after actually being nominated.† There is an echo of this refusal in Mr. Lowden's otherwise rather meaningless campaign statement this year. Concerning his 1928 candidacy he has said: "I know...
President Butler's subject for the evening was "The Lost Art of Thinking." He soon made mental mince-meat of people who cannot read Kant and Aristotle. Equally effective was his onslaught upon "the office-holding and office-seeking class" in the U. S.; that is, the politicians. What politicians were doing any morally courageous thinking? Which of them had labored to ensure against a repetition of the World War? Which of them had solved the farmer's problem? What politician had declared any reasoned convictions on Prohibition...
...know, furthermore, perfectly well that if the party machinery is against enforcement, it cannot be enforced. "I do not want to be misunderstood in this fight, although it seems difficult not to be misunderstood. I am against the liquor traffic. In that respect I take my Republicanism direct from Abraham Lincoln, who denounced the liquor traffic as the second curse of mankind...
Many large U. S. cities have similar tanks within the corporate limits. New York tanks contain enough gas for 15 hours service, Chicago's for 16 hours, New Orleans' for 9½ hours, San Francisco's for 11 hours.† They cannot explode under any circumstance which gas engineers can imagine...
Statistics are always refreshing, for when conscientiously applied they cannot fail to shed a new light upon the most commonplace things. When chewing gum has fulfilled all its natural and unnatural functions, it may always be laid end to end and may be made to stretch as far as desirable. Cosmetics represent a fraction of the world's wealth, and cigarettes are statistically valuable as potential poisons. There is comfort in such realizations when the ordinary use of things palls, so that it may not be for nothing that statistics have lately been applied to pedestrians waiting for traffic signals...