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...political party which has included among its leading officials men guilty of conspiracy, fraud, and the concealment of vital evidence might well to its own advantage be deprived of power for a season. Men who for eight years have controlled the Republican party deserve to forfeit the confidence of the country. Neither the continued association of the Republican candidate with the reactionary element of the party nor his public utterances during the campaign give us any reason to believe that he has broken with that group. The best hope for a return to the liberalism of Roosevelt and Wilson lies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forty Harvard Professors Announce Support of Alfred E. Smith--Reasons for Endorsement of Governor are Given | 10/18/1928 | See Source »

...Agrarian Federation, when he presently declared: "There isn't a man, woman or child in all Mexico who accepts the official charges that the Catholic clergy inspired the assassination of President-elect Obregon. Everybody knows Morones did it. Morones must go, or President Calles's administration will forfeit the confidence of the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Must keep calm! | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...Seniors failed to appear for their game yesterday, and forfeited it. If they fail to meet the Juniors today they will forfeit the services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS BASEBALL ENTERS UPON FINAL ROUND WITH GAME TODAY | 5/22/1928 | See Source »

...Sebastian Kresge resented being indirectly referred to by a Methodist Episcopal clergyman as the devil, if he felt that ingratitude should forfeit charity, he did not allow his actions to express his feelings. Instead, he presented $725,000 to the Detroit Methodist Children's Home Society, with which to build an orphanage for small children. It was to be a new and charming orphanage, with small cottages instead of wards and corridors, with married couples, when possible, to act as father and mother to children who have none of their own. This gift was accepted like the other, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Kresge's Gifts | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

American football was still in its swadding clothes, and like two sandlot teams, each outfit had to concede point to the other before play could be started. Yale agreed to play with 15 men on a side, as in Rugby, if Harvard would forfeit the privilege of trying for a goal after touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grioiron Chosts | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

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