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...Roosevelt has proven by his words and actions that he believes the function of law-making should reside in the executive, without the interference of Congress or the Supreme Court. It is childish to hope, in the manner of the New York Times, that the President has had his fling, and will don robes of respectable conservatism if reelected. In the past he has changed his method of attack many times, but never his philosophy of government...
...bore him two sons now aged 60 and 69. "The marriage," reported the Referee, "pursued the unruffled happiness of a rural England idyll till George was eighty-eight." Then his wife died. George, however, "felt that he had years ahead of him." At 90 he took a second fling at matrimony, wed a girl of 18. Now he has two more children, aged 2 and 5. Asked last week by the Referee if she was happy, Mrs. Skeet, "with a look of almost reverence in her eyes," said: "He is the most wonderful man in the world." Asked what...
Since the advancement of Bill Tabler, veteran drum major, to the rank of drill master, concern has been felt throughout the University that the grand entrance of the band during the year's first intermission would be unheralded by the traditional crossbar fling...
This surprising state of affairs had its beginning last spring when the staid Globe-Democrat decided to have a fling at big-time circulation promotion. Scheme adopted was one invented and successfully used by the rowdy New York Post and sold for $26,167 through its Publishers' Service Co. to the provincial paper. Known as the "Famous Names" cartoon contest, the circulation-catcher presented 84 drawings, one each day, by Cartoonist Peter Arno and a daily list from which readers were to guess the correct picture title. Like most such schemes, "Famous Names" was easy at first, soon grew...
Next day, with the story thoroughly deflated, Democratic pressagents had their fling. In their daily press release they accused the Republican National Committee of attempting to besmirch "the sterling character and unblemished reputation" of "one of the finest officers of the U. S. Army," directly accused the GOP publicity staff of concocting the whole story. As usual, though, the corrections never made the front pages, never caught up with the canard...