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...lack of records could dampen the excitement of the last of the six events, the mile race contested by four young men from both sides of the world who have been individually chasing each other to fabulous marks for the past three years but who had never before met collectively. In the eight times that Princeton's Bonthron, Glenn Cunningham of Kansas and Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania have raced together, Cunningham has come home in front five times, Bonthron thrice. Bon-thron meantime has had a separate series with John Edward Lovelock, the little New Zealand medical student with...
Blustering Huey Long is on the front page again. Apparently such events as the washroom black eye will not dampen an unquenchable thirst to be before the public eye. Now the Senator from Louisiana bombastically attacks General Johnson for the benefit of Randolph Hearst's news hawks, and much to the delight of the Reverend Father Coughlin...
Slushy streets and drizzling cold did not dampen the spirits of President Roosevelt when he attended the Fly Club Dinner Saturday evening. About 1500 people caught a glimpse of the Executive on his trip to and from the Beacon Park Yards of the Boston and Albany Railroad...
...whether is left entirely to Administration discretion. Tax. A stamp tax will be placed on each sale of silver (made on or after May 15, 1934) equal to 50% of the seller's net profits. This tax will take all the joy out of silver speculation, and dampen the silver enthusiasm of speculative interests. Generality. Not in his silver bill but as part of an accompanying message to Congress, the President declared himself in favor of broadening the metallic base of U. S. money by the use of both silver and gold-but only on condition other nations joined...
...State, Boss Flynn broke with Tammany, cannily made an alliance with Mr. Roosevelt's political right hand, Boss Farley. That alliance continued through the Chicago Convention, through the municipal elections last autumn when Farley and Flynn backed a "Recovery" ticket. They were beaten but defeat did not dampen their ambitions. Tammany was also licked and they saw a chance to seize the city's Democratic machine from Tammany's slipping grasp. Once in a generation a revulsion of feeling elects a Fusion-Reform Administration, but between times, year after year, the local Democratic machine rules the city...