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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...renomination and election of Mayor Walker would mean that the City of New York would continue to be run by Charles F. Kerrigan, his able "assistant." This onetime newsgatherer absorbs all the technicalities of municipal government, digests heavy reports, arranges backstage decisions, plants in the alert trial-lawyer mind of the Mayor the few essential facts on which to base his official acts. The Mayor's secretary, Charles Hand, another newsgatherer, serves chiefly as the Walker stage-manager for social and political events...
...stories, Champion is most powerful, most brutal and ironic. A mean Irish boy cuffs and kicks his crippled brother for a 50? piece, knocks down his mother for interfering. He escapes Chicago, wallows from bad 'to worse with liquor and women. The trainer who picks him temporarily out of the gutter, and turns him into champion boxer, he ousts unrepaid. The girl he is forced to marry he deserts penniless. But in New York he is publicized the way the public likes its champions: "Just a kid; that's all he is; a regular...
Campaign speeches are written to mean a lot of things to many men. Candidate Hoover's were no exception. Last week the more incongruous of his campaign sup porters arose in the Senate to decry what they called "inconsistencies" between the Hoover position on farm relief before the election and after...
...specific terms the application of these general principles would mean that the Great Powers, being proportionately larger than the Minor Nations, would make deeper slashes in their armaments. The U. S., Great Britain, Russia, France, Italy, Japan, for example, might cut their armaments in half. Such lesser lands as Chile, Siam, Belgium might reduce theirs by onequarter. All states in a given category such as "Great Powers" would reduce their armaments by the same fraction. The strengths of the Powers relative to each other would then be exactly the same as before the scrapping took place. The advantage...
Ballots for this poll are now in the mails, but no space appears for the signature. Does this mean that a signature is not required and that the millenium of political honesty has finally been found on the banks of the Charles...