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...White House guest of honor during President Hoover's acceptance speech. Last week Alice Roosevelt Longworth entered her political disavowal of "Cousin Frank." Beginning her reminiscences in the current Ladies' Home (in which Baltimore Sun's Frank Richardson Kent was suspected of being a covert collaborator)"Princess Alice" remarked...
...exhausted, can be caught. In all his paintings, Rex Brasher has made a fetish of getting right the living color of feet, beak and the soft part around the eyes, rarely shown accurately. He spent three days getting a sketch of the comparatively common grasshopper sparrow, a hard-running, covert-loving bird. Once he lay for hours in icy water in Shinnecock Bay to catch the wing sweep of brant blown off shore by a heavy gale. The chickadee and the song sparrow are his favorite birds...
...That submarines be abolished (proposed by the U. S. and Britain with the covert hostility of Japan and other nations). Realistic, the Japanese attitude was to soft-soap everyone and let the Conference drag on for as long as the white men liked?months, years, or an even longer period which seemed to be envisioned by Japanese Delegate Tsuneo Matsudaira (the father-in-law of Japan's Crown Prince) in these words: "When all nations sincerely desire to become good and trusted friends, when all nations are prepared to discharge faithfully their domestic and international responsibilities, when all nations feel...
...subject of much covert speculation among curious voters in the 1928 presidential campaign was: How and where did Nominee Herbert Hoover make his millions? A onetime policeman named James O'Brien and a writer named John Hamill sought the answer at Republican headquarters, were vaguely told that Mr. Hoover has prospered by large and successful mining enterprises during his 20 years foreign travel and residence. Democratic headquarters could not give them more information. Still curious, O'Brien decided to have the Hoover past researched and publish a book thereon. He employed Hamill to travel abroad, gather material...
...time stood the following major political events in sequence: i) meetings of the two national committees this winter to select next year's convention cities;? 2) preferential primaries in 20 States, beginning early next spring to instruct delegations to national conventions for this or that presidential candidate; 3) covert and continuous scrambles in all States to control convention delegations; 4) a Republican national convention in mid-June at which Herbert Clark Hoover will almost certainly be renominated for the Presidency and John Doe for the Vice-Presidency; 5) a Democratic national convention a week later at which Richard...