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...acting on deathbed instructions from Sullivan) who pushed aside McAdoo and forced the nomination of Cox at the Democratic convention in 1920. The same forces compromised on John W. Davis in 1924, when the Smith movement failed. Mr. Taggart is now in ill health and resides quietly at French Lick, Ind., playing croquet with his grandchildren...
...Seiberling, was running on the opposing Willis slate. Charles W. telephoned Frank A., who was in Florida at the time. "Stick to your guns," he said. Older Brother answered Younger Brother: "Stick to your guns, too, Charlie." To friends, Older Brother said: "It hasn't been necessary to lick Charlie for 25 years, but if I have to do it again I guess I probably can." Then, Charles W. Seiberling's son died. The brothers did not campaign actively. Hooverizers ran the younger brother to victory over his elder in all four counties of their district...
...Swap generals with us and we'll lick the hell out of you." In this threat, shouted across trenches by boys in Blue to boys in Gray, lies perhaps the greatest tribute to General Robert Edward Lee of Virginia, the soldier who retreated his way to the forefront of military history...
...Count of Ten. Charles Ray is the bashful bruiser, the simple-minded boy who could lick the champion. James Gleason, here a cocky misogynist, is his manager. When the manager goes away, Actor Ray puts on a pink shirt, yellow gloves, a cane, and spats, marries. Instead of taking on the champion, he takes on expenses and a gambling brother-in-law. At last, for quick money he fights the champion with a broken hand, and is, of course, beaten up. His wife had given him the count...
...played on two of the greatest of the early Harvard teams. He reminisced on his experiences, saying that in the old days of small crowds and no training. "We used to get the Yale team from the station, give them a meal, take them down to the field, lick them about 20 or so to nothing and send them back on the next train...