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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notable instance of platform promises carried out. Under the leadership of President Coolidge, it has proved itself a party of constructive ability. In Mr. Hoover, it offers to the country an able and experienced leader, who will carry on the work of the present Ad- ministration. After a long and successful business career, he has held many public and official positions of the greatest responsibility. He has proved himself a great organizer, a far-seeing and resourceful executive, and has discharged every duty in a way to merit the highest praise and admiration. Based on nearly eight years of close...
...course, we know as sensible people that the tariff argument can and has been used for the purpose of covering a multitude of political sins ... a handy smoke screen." He pointed out that the Republican tariff plank was seven lines long in 1920, two pages long...
Missing-between San Diego, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz.-one Nominee for Vice President of the U. S. His name was Benjamin Gitlow. He was a Communist-six feet high, a 200-pounder with black hair, swart skin, bright black eyes, long fingers, very large feet, round shoulders. His friends suspected a Klannish plot, or strong-arm work by the American Legion, which had warned him not to visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western...
...volume contains a long and able introduction by Herbert Asbury,? and many venerable illustrations. One of these shows a lady upsetting a waiter's tray with her dainty toe; the caption is: "Indignant Young Lady Refusing to Take a Drink. This occurred...
GREAT BRITAIN "Piggy People" Smart and sportsmanly Britons have long playfully called each other "horsey people"; and last week it began to seem that foremost British statesmen will soon be known as "piggy people." For some years, the hobby of pig keeping has been pursued by His Majesty's Prime Minister, the Right Honorable Stanley Baldwin; but last week despatches significantly announced that prizes have now been taken by a sow and a litter, respectively, hailing from the piggeries of two more Cabinet ministers. The sow appertains to His Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable...