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...possibly be harder for him to defeat. Alfred Emanuel Smith, pledged to Repeal, would be far stronger than in 1928 because of economic conditions but it was unlikely that he could win out over the Republican nominee. As the President figured it out alone in the White House, a damp G. O. P. against a dripping Democracy could probably hold enough of the Dry vote and win over sufficient moderate Wets to carry the election...
...help," and, in elaboration he pointed to the damp ground on which were strewn some three pounds of Cinnamon balls. "They spilled, you see," he added, much as though God, despairing at the inadequacy of rain had flung down a handful of Cinnamon balls in the interests of the earthly brethren...
...Dublin office the President was trying to draft a white-hot Irish reply to the damp reminder he received fortnight ago from Secretary for the Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas that His Majesty's Government "stands on" the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and stickles for the oath and the annuities...
...applied to political prisoners by the Uriburu Government systematically at the express direction of Daniel Uriburu (nephew). 2) That the first public meeting last week of 10,000 of Dr. Irigoyen's adherents was dampened by rain, then dispersed by firemen who threatened to souse the already damp Irigoyenists. 3) That Critica was privileged to reprint an "Invitation to witness the burning of the Critica building" issued by the new Government's adherents. Within a few hours after this alleged expose, the Government censor passed a news cable carrying a "public announcement" by the Government's adherents...
Having resigned his office as France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand went for a few days' rest to his summer home at Cocherel, near St. Germain. "But it is too damp and cold there for me to stay, now that I am at liberty to go elsewhere," he said. "I shall buy a little boat . . . and go sailing in the sunshine on the blue Mediterranean Sea." Friends of Brer Briand noted a marked improvement in his health and spirits...