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...Republican State Committee and to him said: "Report has come to me that some persons in Massachusetts are proposing to write in my name as a candidate for President at the primaries on April 24. Such action would be most embarrassing to me and, while appreciating the compliment that is intended, I request that it not be done...
...left Manhattan on a boat bound for Italy. Ship news reporters watched her sail away, and whatever they may have observed, reported nothing. Three days later, when Mme. Raisa was far away and out of hearing, the A. P. sent out from Chicago its short despatch which contained a compliment usually reserved for royalty. It said...
...Omaha, Secretary Wilbur of the Navy said: "I am for Herbert Hoover." He thus became the third overtly Hooverized member of the Cabinet. The others are Mr. Work and Postmaster General New. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine is paying his fellow Kansan, Candidate Curtis, the compliment of staying silent...
Observers could not remember when Leader Tilson had paid Candidate Hoover such a forthright compliment. They concluded that the Hoover backing was coming to include industrial Connecticut; also that Leader Tilson was not far from midstream in the Vice Presidential undercurrent...
...most to raise the academic standards of Harvard to their present high national and international rank. While his crowning honor came with the Noble prize for special achievement in chemistry in 1914, he had previously, in 1901, received a flattering invitation from the Prussian government which indirectly was a compliment to Harvard and the scientific advances of American universities in general. In declining the offer then made him of a full professorship of inorganic chemistry at the University of Gottingen, Professor Richards revealed an appreciation of and a loyalty to Harvard which, as Dean Hanford points out, he has always...