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...Chicago, motors were ready to transport the Hoover party up Michigan avenue and Sheridan road to Vice President Dawes' house in Evanston. The Vice President handled the thronging newsgatherers while the Nominee kept what he called a "back seat." The Dawes dictum was that prosperity and competent government were the Issues...
...That the Republican Party chooses as its standard-bearer one who is not only not a politician but who has a professed contempt for a politician's calling, is proof of how completely the party accepts the dictum of President Coolidge that "the business of the United States is business...
...What the country needs most is a good five-cent cigar," was a dictum of late Vice President Thomas R. Marshall which passed into the nation's higher political criticism. That statesman would doubtless derive considerable satisfaction at the present triumph of his wish. In 1927 the production of 5 cent cigars was 3,175,157,870, or 48.3% of all cigars manufactured, and an increase of 10% over the 5 cent production of 1926. Snuff, another inexpensive form of tobacco, likewise established a new high record with 40,154,792 pounds, an increase of 5.4%. The decline...
...would be difficult to imagine a relationship less susceptible of statistical treatment than that of scholarship and athletics. An ill educational dictum it it, however, that does not blow some sporting columnist ten inches of copy: The truly unfortunate part of the attack is not that it discovers in track a sport that has pushed football out of the cellar position in the academic pennant race, even though such discovery may prove a hardship to many article writers. Grave astonishment is the natural reaction to the unsportsmanlike conduct of the Carnegie Institute. The athlete, helpless under what has been called...
...Right Rev. William Thomas Manning, Bishop of New York, like many a bishop inclined to deal pleasantly with the Roman hierarchy, uttered his dictum on the encyclical and upon church unity at the annual meeting of the Church Women's League for Patriotic Service in the Manhattan home of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, social bigwig. Said Bishop Manning: "We are living in very interesting times. . . . Great movements are going on all about us. ... I want to say that I hope no one will feel in the least discouraged or doubtful as to the progress of the movement [for union...