Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was a subject which Nominee Hoover had already discussed with Governor McMullen of Nebraska. The latter had announced that a special session was promised, but had been promptly contradicted by Hoover headquarters. After receiving Senator Borah, Nominee Hoover was still reluctant bui the Borah pressure was great. Senator Norris had "bolted." The northwest looked dangerous. Nomi nee Hoover finally issued a guarded prom ise for the special session...
...public eye. As often they cannot escape it. Many a political son and grandson has had a distaste for politics?viz., the late Robert Todd Lincoln?or keeps out of it because of a feeling that the glory he might gain might be partly reflected. A case of the latter kind is Grandson Henry Cabot Lodge, able political writer on the New York Herald Tribune, who has repeatedly declined nominations in Massachusetts. Cases exactly the opposite of Grandson Lodge are Sons Theodore Roosevelt (unsuccessful) and Son Robert Marion La Follette (successful...
Such atrocities would more than justify U. S. intervention. They are ascribed by the McCoy report to a "gang led by Pedro Altamirano, trusted lieutenant of Sandino." The latter is of course General Augusto Calderon Sandino, who has raised the standard of revolt against U. S. occupation (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) and is still successfully defying capture by U. S. marines. Since Sandino depends wholly upon his fellow-countrymen for contributions to support his army, the news that he is cutting off the hands that feed him is peculiarly challenging to alert belief...
...Bloody Shirt, World-War Model" and "The Rally," as well as in a vigorous editorial defending the publication of the latter...
...what it is to be about. Two groups of lecturers are this of necessity excluded from mention; those whose lectures are of real value only if attended consecutively and those who cannot tell the titles of their lectures in advance. As representative of the point of view of this latter group, the Vagabond quotes from a letter in his files from one of the most distinguished professors at Harvard...