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Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio is a Republican and a personal friend of the President. Only once has he voted against any Administration measure. In Chicago he predicted that our next President will be Warren G. Harding, and gave this list of Mr. Harding's accomplishments as Chief Executive...
...Senator Fess of Ohio made public a letter to Governor Smith of New York, criticising the memorial recently sent by him at the direction of the state legislature to Congress favoring "wine and beer." Senator Fess believes that the time for compromising is past, that enforcement is the only issue in the prohibition question now, and that the American people are overwhelmingly in favor of the law as it stands...
When Mr. Simeon Fess, ex-Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, attempts to portray the President as a lawgiver and executive of the blood and stature of Lincoln, public opinion is at once skeptical and on the defense. When, on the other hand, The New York World, or Mr. Joseph T. Robinson, minority leader in the Senate, impale him upon a phrase like "the creature of a Senatorial oligarchy," or call him the " synthetic automaton of a few reactionary political doctors who met secretly in a room in the Blackstone Hotel in 1920," public prejudice and the mob's love...
There were three interesting lectures during the week, delivered by Dr. Grenfell, Clifford Roe, the noted social worker of Chicago, and Dr. Fess...
What we call a flunk or a dead, namely, a total failure, is known differently elsewhere as fess (West Point), smash (Wesleyan), and burst (several Southern colleges). The Acta makes a mistake in not noticing the fact that our word mucker applies only to persons not in college. The collegiate rowdy is known as a scrub, which I think is another word originated here, though undoubtedly drawn from English sources. At Columbia a scrub is dubbed a ploot, a prune, or a plum. At Yale a peculiarly suggestive phrase, slum, is general...