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Calvin Coolidge, via Lou E. Holland of Kansas City, President of the A. A. C. W.: "... My heartiest good wishes and cordial greetings. ... I notice that the emblem of your organization bears a single word, 'Truth...
...Judged by its conduct in the past few years, it seems to me that the title of the Democratic Party to its emblem, the rooster, so far less noble than the eagle, at least endowed with courage and the love of fair play, is decidedly shaky. It has been standing for obstruction, destruction and disturbance. Of late it has been reveling in abuse, calumny and slander of the dead as well as of the living, so its own skirts have proved to be less clean than those of the party it has been attacking. It seems to me that...
...this is to be true, all that will remain of Boston in another fifty years will be a scattered, sleepy, ivy-covered New England town, whose emblem, one imagines, will bear the pathetic words "Sic Transit", and whose old men will have nothing to do but gather on the steps of the hotel in the evening and converse with one another of the city's departed greatness...
...York City whose conviction for contempt of court was upheld by the Supreme Court (TIME, Dec. 3) escaped from serving his sentence of 60 days in prison. In New York politics his conviction for having criticized a judge conducting a hearing on a local traction company, was an emblem of martyrdom. The case was taken to President Coolidge, Republicans urging executive pardon to prevent Mr. Craig (a Democrat) from posing further as a martyr...
...aroused as much comment for being " off the subject" as Sir William Orpen's painting To the Unknown British Soldier. Gill's work represents Christ with a seven-thonged whip, driving before him a woman with a vanity case, a man with a pawnbroker's emblem, men in top hats and frock coats. The sculptor explained: " We still have money-changers in England...