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In the days before George W. Bush was re-elected??President of the United States, a story spread through the back alleys of official Washington: Bush had allegedly called Secretary of State Colin Powell into his office and said, "I had to be a war President in my first term. I want to be a peace President in my second term, and I need you to stay on and help me do that." The story was false. Several of Powell's close associates not only denied the story but also laughed when they heard it--they have seen...
...predictions but I'll tell you Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis are going to be re-elected???Republican National Chairman Sanders...
Parliamentary experts told the Chancellor that if he dared to face the Reichstag his Cabinet would be overwhelmingly defeated. Therefore Protege von Papen asked Patron von Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag, which he obligingly did. Within 60 days a new Reichstag must be elected???but in less than ten days Germany must send a delegation to the Lausanne Conference, which all the world hopes will untangle Reparations, War Debts and German private debts...
...Seat. Of prime political importance last week was a House successor to Longworth from the Cincinnati district. If a Democrat is elected???and one came within 3,000 votes of it last November? the next House would be tied at 217, with one Farmer-Laborite. Immediately the Press began to nominate Mrs. Longworth for the place. The daughter of a President, she is smart, politically-minded. Her election would maintain the House's "widow tradition."* But her brother Archie scouted the notion that she would ever accept political office. Besides, most Cincinnati Republicans consider her something of an outsider; they...
...have backed his pretentions heavily with cash, but failed. In 1905 he ran for Mayor of New York City on an anti-Tammany ticket and lost by a small margin. In 1906 he took the Tammany nomination for Governor and then broke with Tammany. The Demicratic ticket was elected??? all but himself. In 1907 he backed his campaign manager for sheriff ?as a Republican. In 1909 he ran again for Mayor of New York and lost. In 1910 he ran for Lieutenant Governor and lost. His ventures were attended with worse and worse luck at the polls...