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...which lasted about one hour, people crowded up to shake hands. Then Gilda Gray danced for the same real estate company." In the 1924 Democratic convention Bryan was a delegate from Florida (after the Hollywood, Fla., News had suggested that ''that would give Miami two or three million dollars' worth of printer's ink free"). The Great Commoner suggested Dr. A. A. Murphree, president of the University of Florida, as a candidate. Mr. Werner states that Bryan later confessed that "he had never been so humiliated in his life" as at the convention. He suggests, however...
...Forty-four million Italians are marching in unity behind our Army because the blackest injustice is being attempted against them-that of taking from them their place in the sun! ... It is against this Italian people to which mankind owes its greatest conquests-this people of heroes, of poets, of saints, of navigators, of COLONIZERS-that the world dares to threaten 'sanctions.' . . . Italy! Italy! entirely and universally Fascist, rise to your feet! Let the cry of your determination rise to the skies and reach our soldiers in East Africa. It is the cry of Justice and of Victory...
...Last year at Geneva a Prime Minister said that the influence of the Oxford Group had been felt in every village and town in his country. One man changed-a million changed-a nation changed...
...hundred students to spend eight minutes thus amounts to four thousand minutes wasted out of every hour; there are four morning hour classes, and four times four thousand is sixteen thousand minutes wasted a day; there are a minimum of one hundred class days a year, which gives one million six hundred minutes a year wasted by men with classes in Harvard Hall...
...Pennsylvania, Cross of Connecticut. Fitzgerald of Michigan, Brann of Maine. There were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats was $250 for two. Day after the fight, Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote a lead...