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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shaker Giovanni Giuriati is a somewhat insignificant minion of Dictator Mussolini. But Shaker André Tardieu is one of the ablest, most forthright and least blatantly famed statesmen of France. Deftly M. Tardieu turned his complimentary speech to Signer Giuriati into an inoffensive but significant hint. Italy and France might differ, he said, in their political concepts and in the objects of their foreign policy; but surely they ought to unite in more and more projects of commercial benefit, such as this railway. "I hail these strong bands of steel," cried André Tardieu in emotional peroration...
...arch-Republican Connecticut had come within 40,000 of chiming in, why had his own people forsaken him? The four times they had sent him to Albany, his plurality in New York City had always been about half a million. That would probably have been enough this time, at least to give him a start towards Washington...
...Governor of Texas, as everyone knows, is red-headed Dan Moody, 35. By right of the usual sweeping Democratic majority, he will continue to be Governor for at least two years. And long before he is three-score and ten, he is expected to ask his party to let him do what, in 1928, Smith...
...Roosevelt, who had, in 1920, in 1924, and 1928 placed the name of Smith before Democratic Conventions, and who had dubbed him The Happy Warrior. With his Warrior in unhappy defeat, Governor-Elect Roosevelt took small pleasure in predictions that he himself might be the hope of an, at least momentarily, nationally hopeless Democracy. Also, since he had not yet entirely recovered from paralysis of the legs, Mr. Roosevelt could not confidently contemplate long years of public office...
...least of his considerable share of the labors was to foster his cordial relations with European and Asiatic diplomats, all of whom held him in high esteem and gladly gave him their confidence when they feared his austerer chief. "All roads lead ultimately to Magnolia" (House's summer place), said Northcliffe...