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...Smith of New York, who signed the repeal of his state's prohibition law, went to Chicago and denied that he would be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1924. In Chicago he conferred with George E. Brennan, leader of Illinois Democrats, and then went to French Lick, where he visited with " Tom" Taggart, boss of Indiana Democrats...
...French Lick Governor Smith rested. After meeting Mr. Taggart he declared: " There will be neither poses nor posies. I've had plenty of that and I want it understood that I'm here to rest and don't intend to do anything else...
...Einstein theory in respect to the bending of a ray of star light as it passes near the gravitational field of the sun has been verified to the utmost satisfaction of all scientists by the recent measurement of the photographic plates taken by the Lick Observatory Expedition to Australia in the fall of 1922", said Professor H. T. Stetson in commenting on the recently published results of the solar eclipse expedition of 11922, sent under the auspices of the Lick Observatory to Wallal in northwester Australia, a point on the path of totality...
...Profiting by the mistakes of this expedition the Lick Observatory in California prepared for many months its expedition. W. W. Campbell was made director. The first action was that of photographing that region of the sky in which the sun would be three months later...
...September 21, the day of the eclipse, the plates were returned to California and measured with an unquestionable precision. Five-sixths of the plates have been measured at the present time, and inasmuch as no great difference of displacement is expected in the remainder of the plates, the Lick Observatory will not again verify the theory at the total solar eclipse which sweeps Mexico and Lower California next fall...