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Most famed example of what used to be called Lorimer Luck† occurred at the death of Warren Gamaliel Harding in San Francisco in 1923. Mrs. Harding had just read to the ailing President an article about himself by the Post's Samuel G. Blythe when he turned quietly over and died. In 1931, brilliant Lillian Leitzel of the circus was killed by a fall from a trapeze. Next week the Post carried an article about their professional risks by her husband, Alfredo Codona. Title: "Taking the Fall." In 1932, an issue...
...produced by the late Warren Gamaliel Harding in a speech he made here after his election and before the inauguration. He was sounding off to Latin America that his Administration would have no imperialistic policy and he said most emphatically, "We don't want nobody's territory nowhere...
...private car and his train pulled out for Washington, leaving behind the first public declaration of what he intended to do with his great political triumph. Measured in the percentage of the voting public whom he had won to his support, his triumph was as great as that of Gamaliel Harding in 1920. Measured in electoral votes, it was overwhelming. Measured in moral effect it was greatest of all. For a time at least the terrific impact of his victory had knocked the wind out of all opposition. Alf Landon's personal friend William Allen White publicly proclaimed...
Fourteen years ago, President Warren Gamaliel Harding received a letter saying: "I shall be 65 years old the 18th of the month. For a long time I have promised what I think is my better self that at that age I would free myself as much as possible from imperative duties to the end that I may have time to read many books which I have not had time to read in a busy life, to travel and to serve my neighbors and some public causes. ... As a beginning ... I hereby resign...
...throughout the U. S. In 1910 he organized his opera troupe. The second season's deficit ($700) he swears was his last. But Gallo worked hard to convince small-towners that opera is not a rich man's bore. One of his converts was the late Warren Gamaliel Harding, then a country newspaper editor, who reluctantly accepted free tickets, heard his first performance when the San Carlo visited Marion, Ohio...