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...Spanish situation, to deal only with Spain's relation to the rest of Europe and not at all with the government at Madrid. Spain is having no conventional uprising of the Latin-American variety; it is a revolution in the bloodiest and most violent sense of the word. Newspapermen Harry Gannes and Theodore Repard have assembled a background of Spanish history and recordel a series of facts that are essential to an understanding of the struggle in Spain today...
...Authority and the Individual." An octogenerian, Dewey still evidences one of the keenest minds in the country. Although he made no attempt to furnish humorous copy, his ability to prevent himself from declaring for or against the present administration was equal to all the endeavors of the assembled newspapermen, though at one time he had to come out with the frank statement, "Really, gentlemen, this isn't a campaign speech, you know...
...most of the established companies have nearly doubled in price. The prices of typical new companies have doubled, tripled and quadrupled, mostly quadrupled. All summer between 10 a. m. and noon the Manila Stock Exchange on the Escolta was crowded with "Escolta miners'5-lawyers, doctors, merchants, newspapermen, government officials, speculating gleefully, many of them starting with no more than 100 pesos ($50) capital. Five Americans and five Spaniards, said to have been worth almost nothing a year ago, were credited with becoming millionaires...
...less than two months before election day 1912. The President had come to speak at the banquet of the Congress of International Chambers of Commerce. Candidate Wilson was touring New England at the end of his campaign, and had ended his day at the same hotel. Along with other newspapermen I hoped for a meeting of the two candidates, and, those of us in the Wilson group, sought the Governor's permission to bring about a meeting with visions of posed photographs and a worthwhile national story. Governor Wilson was timid about the proprieties of it, but allowed himself...
Steiwer's address climaxed a day of important developments here. Governor Alf Landon's bandwagon, temporarily halted by the refusal of the big Pennsylvania and New York delegations to pledge complete support of the Kansan, forged head when the results of an informal poll of the delegates taken by newspapermen became known. London was critical with 486 votes on the first ballot not counting many of the so called 'favorite son" states which are expected to switch to him. Horah was given approximately 70 votes and Know about the same number in the poll...