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Now, with the convention at hand. Candidate Roosevelt suddenly wanted to ditch Mr. Shouse as permanent chairman. The Governor's friends declared that Mr. Shouse had won support at the April meeting by trickery and misrepresentation, that he was hostile to the Roosevelt candidacy, had covertly worked against it...
Boiling mad at what he considered a treacherous betrayal, Mr. Shouse explained that his "commendation" as permanent chairman came only after Governor Roosevelt had dictated over the long distance telephone his sanction of the Chicago compromise to Robert H. Jackson, New Hampshire National Committeeman and Roosevelt supporter. He cited Virginia...
Were it not that the book has received unstinted praise from one end of the country to the other I would not have been surprised at your failure to give it some mention; but we have been informed that seldom has a volume of its nature received such universal commendation...
Inventions are of themselves merely objects of wonder or marvel. It is in the use to which they are put that makes them warrant either commendation or abuse. And it is for such things as the proposed Harvard-Oxford debate rather than for the broadcasting of advertizing matter that the...
Financially, however, the Dramatic organization has its greatest problem. The last few performances have seen steadily dwindling audiences, with the result that the Club's exchequer is being sorely tried. Much of the drop in attendance can be blamed directly on the quality of presentation; an equal loss of prestige...