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...Chairman Volstead, as was his duty, reported it. After the Amendment was ratified, an enforcement act had to be drafted. That again fell to the Judiciary Committee, and Mr. Volstead as its chairman drew up the act and then reported it. So his name was attached to it???and so he became famous...
...woman's name should appear in print but twice?when she is married and when she is buried," but certain exceptions, doubtless, may be pardoned in a President's wife, and few Presidents' wives have lived up to the above maxim better than the one who proposed it???Edith Carow Roosevelt...
...Pershing's men" who dashed so furiously about France in a special Renault, who tore through bursting skies to combat, who swaggered most gloriously?no sooner did he cease berating the elderly admirals of Washington than other admirals on the Pacific were faced?so the press would have it???with a most embarrassing test...
...other day Serge Koussevitzky, new conductor of the same organization, played Rimsky-Korsakov's Scherzo of the Bee. The audience liked it??? liked its imaginative humor, its showiness. They clapped loud and long. The piece is very short. Without hesitation, Mr. Koussevitzky turned back the page, lifted his wand; the Scherzo of the Bee was replayed...
...sooner had John W. Davis left Illinois than Charles W. Bryan entered it???his first trans-Mississippi appearance. But whereas Mr. Davis had gone chiefly to large towns, centres of capital and industry, Mr. Bryan visited the smaller farming and laboring communities. With Candidate LaFollette harrying north of him, Mr. Bryan devoted two days to scouring the southern part of the state in flag-decked automobiles. He stopped in Christopher, Benton, Fairfield, Mount Vernon (near his birthplace, Salem, where he is still known as "Jack" Bryan, a boyhood nickname). Winding up with a speech at Robinson, he then jumped over...