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Again, Senator Fess has ever been a Coolidge man, a "Coolidge-anyway" man. Only once has he endeavored to dispel the impression that he is the Coolidge spokesman in the Senate, and he later confessed that that one endeavor was only a political charade. The object of the "Coolidge-anyway" movement has been to block Candidate Hoover with uninstructed delegates and its aim, according to pessimists, is another "hotel room" nomination. The choice of Keynoter Fess seemed like a peep through the hotel room keyhole...
Paradoxically light was being thrown upon Sir Henri himself, last week, from Manhattan. There President Richard Airey of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., a Royal Dutch subsidiary, declared: "I wish to dispel a popular illusion that Sir Henri Deterding has changed his nationality from Dutch to British. . . . Living principally in England, as he does, he prefers to be known by his British title . . . but he has never changed his nationality...
...Meanwhile the "Trader" cackled harmless and sometimes intriguing remarks. Example: "The first elephant ever I shot had ivories that weighed 140 pounds. And if you think I wasn't the most tickled youngster on earth, why, dispel the rumor...
Perceiving this, Chicago Democrats have taken hope. Last week they announced a plan to dispel the Republican shadow from south Chicago. They were reported to have obtained the most famed citizen of Negro Chicago to work for Governor Al Smith and the Democracy...
...Ohio, who used to be a college president* and still looks like one though he long since mastered the art of big politics-mastered it so well that he has come to be regarded as President Coolidge's mouthpiece on the Senate floor. President Coolidge once tried to dispel this aura from Senator Fess by saying that not even in the Senate days of William Morgan Butler of Massachusetts did the Coolidge Administration have an accredited Senate spokesman. Nevertheless, Senator Fess continued welcome at the White House and constantly was seen there. This particular morning he was, he said...