Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas Republican Senator Arthur Capper is campaigning for reelection. Excerpt : "This is no time to put Democrats in power-the Lord knows it is all the Republicans can do to keep things going in times like these...
...Republican campaign at Wilmington last week, the Vice President warmly championed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act in an address which was a composite echo of all the Republican tariff speeches he had been forced to listen to during the nine months this measure was before the Senate. High point excerpt...
...blemishes upon the portrait. Each college generation has it within its power to refine or to smudge this portrait." Horrid Picture. More doleful was the outlook of eloquent, beetle-browed little Warden Bernard Iddings Bell of St. Stephens College (New York), whose views appear in the current Bookman. Excerpt: "Assurances that illiteracy is decreasing among us or that many more children than used to go on nowadays to secondary school and college . . . are, to be sure, sources of joy; but still the horrid picture remains of an increasing immaturity at the top of the intellectual pile-of a world dominated...
...Pacific. A few minutes later she was dead. Her Barling monoplane Agua Caliente plowed into a hillside four miles north of the airport. Investigators searching the aviatrix' room found a note to (and revealing that she had been married three months ago to) Robert A. Elliott, Naval Reserve pilot. Excerpt: "If I have preceded you, do not grieve for me, but be content. Finish your work down here and make me proud of you. . . . And when you come I will welcome you. . . ." Other investigators at Irving, Kan., found that Ruth Alexander, 24, had been married twice before. Her second husband...
General John Joseph Pershing gave an interview to newshawks on his 70th birthday (Sept. 13). Excerpt: ". . . Nothing gives me more happiness than that I have never been drawn into political life. I have watched what happens to holders of high political office. I have seen their every word distorted and twisted to find some hidden meaning. I have seen their political supporters picture them as prodigies of wisdom and statesmanship while their opponents at the same time set them out as stupid scoundrels. And I have known them, and known that they were neither the one nor the other, just...