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...White House, Maine's lame-duck Senator Gould conducted a party of French-Canadian hunters who presented the President with moose meat. A visitor lifted a birchbark horn to his lips and said: "Now, Mr. President, we'll show you how we call the moose." No Bull Mooser, Mr. Hoover exclaimed: "No, no, please don't! I'd just as soon look at those horns if it's all the same...
Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, who is an Easterner by birth and education (Groton, Harvard), a Westerner by political preference. A wealthy ex-Bull Mooser, he helps finance other Insurgents' campaigns...
Zinsser stated in a paper read before about 200 members of the society in the sectional session of medical bacteriology, immunology, and comparative pathology that he had succeeded in isolating the "Rickettsia bodies of Mooser." the germ that takes millions of lives through the disease, typhus fever. He described experiments in which he had grown large numbers of the germ in pure culture, thereby producing a vaccine which has successfully immunized animals from the fever...
...Raymond Robins of Chicago, oldtime Bull Mooser: "Even the Wets piously declare they do not want the saloon, but a rose by any other name is still a rose. . . . The saloon is simply a place where men drink liquor, even if we painted it white, sold lilies at the door and had Uncle Sam for a bartender...
...difference. Mr. Cutting admired Mr. Jones and supported him in politics. For 15 years Mr. Cutting has published the Santa Fé Daily New Mexican and El Neuvo Mexicano (weekly in Spanish) and with them has supported four Democratic and two Republican gubernatorial candidates. He was a Roosevelt "Bull Mooser" as well as an anti-Wilsonite. "Independent" describes him better than "Republican". He acknowledged "a heavy responsibility" as he entrained last week for Washington to present his credentials and take a seat which, though it will be across the aisle from where Senator Jones used to sit, and though...