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Business Bid. As a piece of smart politics to allay the fears of Big Business, to bid for its favor, seven of Democracy's most potent leaders???James Middleton Cox, John William Davis and Alfred Emanuel Smith, the party's last three presidential nominees, together with Senate Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson, House Leader Garner, National Chairman Raskob and Executive Chairman Shouse?signed a manifesto on the party's future course. They said they regarded their "remark- able victory" as an "opportunity for constructive service." The Republican tariff they flayed as the "apotheosis of bad economy" but added: "Whatever changes...
...Poona near the southwest coast, however, was a scene of placidity. "Peace negotiations" were entered into between St. Gandhi, Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal, Nehru in Yeroda gaol, and the "moderate" leaders???Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar. Outcome of this meeting, sanctioned by the Viceroy, was a Gandhi peace proposal whose nature was kept secret...
...Huddle. Republican House leaders???Speaker Longworth, Floor Leader Tilson, Rules Chairman Snell?banded together to praise the bill, to consolidate their voting strength sufficiently to run the legislation through to passage under a special rule barring amendments from the floor. But the discontented Republican element in the House was too large to execute this scheme at once. The leaders had to let the disgruntleds "talk themselves out" first in a shut-door party huddle...
...been tried and acquitted by a bourgeois jury in Germany on charges of subversive journalism; had been told in Paris to get out or bury himself in a provincial town; had been active in revolutionary talking parties; had met, been insanely jealous of, broken with most other red leaders???except the German banker, Friedrich Engels, his disciple and friend until death. His trustiest weapons were always flaming words and inflaming ideas. Already, before reaching England, he had proclaimed his memorable: "Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world...
...three Republican leaders??? Longworth, Tilson, Snell?had finally been convinced by a conscientious Connecticut veteran, 72-year-old E. Hart Fenn, that honesty demanded passage of the Fenn Bill. Prudence also demanded it since, looked at nationally, reapportionment would slightly favor Republicans. But since Indiana might lose two seats by reapportionment. Congressman Vestal refused to exercise his whip on behalf of the Fenn Bill?although, in the end, he thought it prudent to vote for it himself. There were, of course, other opponents for the same reason?Iowa's Dickinson who would have liked to be U. S. Vice President...