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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impressive though they are in print and picture, crowds do not fool the seasoned observer of politics. Any local boss, if given enough time, can organize a crowd to warm a candidate's heart. When that candidate happens to be the President of the U. S. public curiosity alone will render the boss's job relatively simple. This week the New York Times solemnly warned President Roosevelt that October crowds do not necessarily ripen into November votes, recalled the sad cases of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, both of whom drew record crowds...
...evening last week in the Tropical Room of Chicago's Medinah Athletic Club a hundred newspapermen and a posse of local Republican bigwigs assembled to hear a radio broadcast. What they were going to hear was a secret that few knew. That it was going to be "sensational," that it was going to be broadcast over-station WGN of the bitterly Republican Chicago Tribune and 66 outlets of the Columbia network, was common talk...
President: Just one word or two on taxes, the taxes that all of us pay toward the cost of government of all kinds. Well, I know something of taxes. For three long years I have been going up & down this country preaching that government-Federal and state and local-costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching. . . . I propose to you, my friends, and through you to the nation, that government of all kinds, big and little, be made solvent and that the example be set by the President of the United States and his Cabinet...
...this decision can be discovered only by another of Edward VIII's officials, the King's Proctor. The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp. Up he walked with the Mayor, local judges and members of the Norwich Corporation, all in full robes, as the Town Crier intoned, "Make way! Make way for God's and the King's Judge! Make way!" Sir John Hawke was in scarlet robe with imposing ermine collar and full powdered wig, the conventional embodiment...
...Trollope in Belgrave Square. Among journalistic employes of British newspapers indignation at the suppression of the Simpson story was overwhelming last week and these minions, in open defiance of their employers, the Press Lords, gave every assistance they could to U. S. correspondents covering the case. At Ipswich the local authorities told British reporters whom they suspected of aiding their U. S. colleagues. "You are warned to desist...