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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pride, assured bi-partisan applause on his progress through the city's streets by bundling delighted Mayor Marvin into the back seat of his automobile between himself and Governor Lehman. Proceeding to Syracuse University to lay the cornerstone of a new College of Medicine unit, he praised local initiative, deftly reminded his listeners that the new building had been made possible by an $825,000 PWA grant, smilingly observed that he had laid many a cornerstone in the past and that so far as he knew none of the structures had yet collapsed...
Returning to his train after his Convention speech that evening, the Nominee still further endeared himself to Syracusans when he found the local American Legion glee club waiting outside the railroad station for a parting serenade. Halting his automobile, he listened to I'll Be Ready When The Great Day Comes, cried: "I'd like to stay here with you boys all night and sing myself...
...said." Only a little less excited by the Smith speech were the New Deal Democrats, who denounced him as a pitiable, embittered old has-been; Republicans and anti-New Dealers, who proclaimed that Al Smith's popularity would swing several doubtful states into the Republican column. In a local Tammany club on Manhattan's East Side, Sachem Al Smith's picture was taken from the wall because "we don't want the picture of any Benedict Arnold around here...
...native tongues-which popularly caught on, but the speech also contained extraordinarily meaty and precise encouragement and instructions for thousands of Britons and Indians performing all sorts of functions vital to the Raj. For example the District Officers, many of them Britons of fine calibre doing their best for local Indian communities but harassed by having to write interminable reports to the Centre, were given a kindly hint by the Viceroy to ease up on this scrivening and get out on more camping trips among the people. "You may count upon my steady support," said Linlithgow, sounding...
...universities, which would carry on "graduate work" under the leadership of brilliant scholars. The average business man would thus acquire an education equivalent to that of a Harvard sophomore on probation. Similarly, Harvard's national scholarships are declared to be doomed, as the omnipotent junior colleges would become purely local institutions (of equal status and desirability, of course!) and the "inevitable tendency" would swamp Harvard's feeble efforts to stem its onrushing tide...