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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conventions of 1888 and 1892, but he bided his time and saw how things were done. Then in 1896, when he was ready, when he had found his man William McKinley, he quietly retired from business, went into politics with a bang, and put his candidate across on the first ballot. From that time until Death came for him in his Washington mansion (1904), Mark Hanna, as Senator from Ohio, "minister without portfolio," leader of the Senate, was very much in politics. In Ohio he was politics. Now and then someone was foolhardy enough to oppose...
...more than a pessimist; he is a writer of tragedies. The two long poems in this book, Dear Judas and The Loving Shepherdess, are different statements of the same idea: "You see men walking and they seem to be free but look at their faces, they're caught." The first poem is Jeffers' version of the Passion Play, with Judas cast in a major role. The second tells the story of Clare Walker, leading her dwindling flock of sheep along the California coast toward the day when her baby will be born and she will die. Says Poet Jeffers: "There...
Nothing which anyone could say in favor of enforcing the prohibitory law could possibly please the fanatical wets. Reasonable people, wets and drys alike, must approve some parts of President Hoover's message which refer to that subject. Wets cannot honestly deny his first statement, namely that the first duty of the President under his oath of office is to secure the enforcement of the laws, nor his second, namely that the enforcement of the laws enacted to give effect to the eighteenth amendment is far from satisfactory. Beyond that there may be honest differences of opinion between wets...
...First, there is a drink evil, and, where it is not in some way curbed, it becomes more and more dangerous as our civilization becomes more and more complicated...
...Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. This is Pugsley's second gift to the Law School this year. On November 14, he established the John Harvey Gregory Trust, consisting of an initial grant of $400,000. Sixty scholarships of $400 each will be available at first for students from each of 60 nations named in the provisions. The income which is not used will be allowed to accumulate until the amount of each award has been increased to $2000. Since it is probable that not all 60 of the scholarships, will be used each year, the unused portion...