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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made it a point to have his place on the program shifted to an evening hour, when more radios would be turned on. The Bowers speech began with contrasts between Abraham Lincoln and Harry Ford Sinclair and between the political schools of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamiltion. Next, the eight-year Wilson regime was lauded. Then the eight-year Harding-Coolidge regime was condemned, with the emphasis on the Harding days. Avoiding statements of fact, Mr. Bowers pumped his breath into alliterative generalities. Following are some of the epithets that rolled from his tongue and out across the land: privilege...
Prohibition. The Democrats said: "The Republican Party for eight years in complete control of the government at Washington, presents the remarkable spectacle of feeling compelled in its national platform to promise obedience to a provision of the Federal Constitution Which it has flagrantly disregarded and to apologize to the country for its failure to enforce laws enacted by the Congress of the United States. Speaking for the national Democracy, this convention pledges the party and its nominee to honest effort to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment and all other provisions of the Federal Constitution and all laws enacted pursuant thereto...
Intelligence. More impressive than any outburst was the attentive silence which obtained in the monster convention hall during the quiet speech of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was the third time since 1920 that Mr. Roosevelt had placed his friend, Alfred Emanuel Smith, in nomination for the Presidency. In those eight years, Mr. Roosevelt had been crippled by, but now had almost recovered from, infantile paralysis. With his limp and cane and the stretch of suffering on his face, he might have made an appeal to the audience more emotional than any of the other speakers. Instead, he held himself erect...
...Ogdensburg, where it had missed a $15,000 "gate" and was nearly late for the next scheduled performance. After the circus folk had left their cars, Federal inspectors stationed at Ogdensburg made a fresh search, ripping, probing, thoroughgoing. The number of bottles found rose to 30,000, filled eight trucks...
...designed the first Packard after a careful study of European cars, retired from the business in 1915. He died three months ago (TIME, Apr. 2), beloved by his neighbors in Warren, Ohio, to whom he left $100,000 for a town library. Last year some 35,000 six-and eight-cylinder Packards were sold and Mr. Macauley said: "We keep only those men who, we believe, are personally interested in the work itself...