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This hour makes manifest...
Drift. But during the three Hoover years a Wet drift, slow & steady, has set in. The Wet East's dissatisfaction with Prohibition was manifest in the 1930 Congressional elections. This year the Wet vote in the House reached an all-time Prohibition peak of 187. The G. O. P. in New Jersey, Illinois and Vermont last month plumped for resubmission or repeal. A Literary Digest poll showed preponderant wet sentiment in every State except Kansas and North Carolina. And last week John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who with his father has given $350,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, wrote...
...schools is ten percent greater than that of the class of 1926 who remained for post-graduate study. If as many as possible of these men would devote their time and money to travel with a serious purpose, the argument runs, America would enjoy the same beneficial results which manifest themselves in the English and the Scandinavians, the two most traveled and most enlightened races of Europe...
...inherent weakness of Governor Roosevelt's candidacy has been made manifest to the country. . . . These results dispose completely of the Roosevelt propaganda that he is the idol of the masses. . . . Mr. Roosevelt's protestations of interest in the forgotten man have brought him just nowhere. . . . The real reason is that the people of the East know about Mr. Roosevelt and gradually have taken his measure. They just do not believe in him. They have detected something hollow in him, something synthetic, something pretended and calculated...
...believed that an upperclassman posted the petition in response to the recent announcement by the House Masters that no action on inter-House eating would be taken until concerted student opinion in favor of the project was made manifest...