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...Rich with Ritchie". To Chicago to address the Illinois Manufacturers' Association went Maryland's Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie in accordance with Rule No. 6 of How to Become President (The candidate must move about the coun-try). He visited the Board of Trade where business in the grain pits ceased for four minutes while he was given an ovation. One grain broker helped Governor Ritchie follow Rule No. 4 (Identify yourself early and firmly with a national issue) by coining a campaign slogan: "Get Rich with Ritchie...
...staple for the political japes of a generation not yet extinct. But now the system has been perfected into "Government by Inquiry." Whenever a "crying need" or "shameful scandal" is discovered, the nation's legislators (especially in the Senate) go through motions which notify the coun- try that (though the matter may be handled by one of the 79 committees which Congress keeps standing for all purposes) the treatment will not be mere routine efficiency but something extra-special and significant indeed. Sometimes, if a sufficiently potent Inquisitor insists, an extra-special committee is appointed...
Canvass. In all the 120 counties touched by the flood, house-to-house canvasses were made to determine exactly what was needed in con- struction, repairs, furniture, seed, livestock, fowls, clothing. In 111 counties these canvasses were completed. The remaining nine coun- ties had estimated their necessities...
...merciless person; hundreds of persons have fled for their very lives, to this coun- try, because of the fear with which they held O'Higgins. I do not think there will be any political effect but I do think that sheer fear caused a group to determine to kill him as the only means of safety...
...Haven, Coun., November 18, 1925. Injuries to several members of the squad have lowered Yale hopes for Saturday's contest in Cambridge...