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Tomorrow the "windy city" will be assailed by new gusts as the widely ballyhooed, expensive Republican convention starts revolving on its well greased axis. There will be little to disturb the placld sequence of oratory, credentials, temporary officers, resolutions, and the form of nomination; party managers with an eye to lean purses have seen to that. Every effort will be made to dispatch the weary business and send the local delegates a homing by Thursday at the latest...
Under the circumstances, it is a misfortune to find the Boston "Traveller" in discussing the situation editorially, making self-complacent remarks about the willingness of peace-loving nations, (by which the United States is of course meant,) to "fight to the last ditch" against warring nations which disturb our interests and our efforts for peace. Such willful brags, however well they may be meant, seldom serve the professed purpose for which they are made. Historically, they are a reflection of the "big stick" epigram of Theodore Roosevelt, the most popular, and probably the most unfortunate of his phrases...
That gave him the State's 16 convention votes. Dr. France was beaten on his home ground. Yet he managed to collect sufficient votes - 16,900 - to disturb the Hoover managers. What they could not explain was why so many anti-Hoover votes had been cast by Republicans who well knew they were throwing their ballots away on a vain candidate. President Hoover had won but he had not - as Cartoonist Edmund Waller Gale of the Los Angeles Times elaborately suggested {see cut) - vacuum-cleaned his absurd opponent as thoroughly as his Maryland friends had expected. The France...
...seals travel in their regular wagons which are loaded on the flat care and moved from stop to stop. This does not disturb the animals at all and they continue their daily swims and usual diet...
...Osaka: "We are determined to make Manchuria an earthly paradise and nothing can stop us! There is no need to pay any attention to the Washington Nine-Power Treaty or the Peace Pact. If the League of Nations interferes we need only ask, Is the League going to disturb world peace...