Word: notes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, not in any organization. ... No longer shall public offices be regarded as mere political patronage. . . . The success of the Republican party rests upon good government, not upon patronage, and Florida will have good government so far as it is within my power to give it. ... I note your demand that the organization shall dictate appointments in Florida, irrespective of merit or my responsibility. I enclose herewith copy of a statement I issued last March [expressing a willingness to cooperate only with reputable Republicans in South]. That statement was no idle gesture...
...Oilman Doheny's acquittal on the conspiracy charge; had received, it was said, a million-dollar fee for his services. Now he was Fall's chief defender. His claims which the jury rejected: The $100,000 cash was a friendly loan for which Doheny held a torn note. Doheny had reluctantly taken the Elk Hills lease as the result of a Japanese war scare in 1921 and as an act of patriotism for national security. (The Navy, through Secretary Charles Francis Adams, refused to submit to the court confidential documents which might or might not support this...
...given last week in St. Paul, Minn., where 600 delegates and more than 1,500 visitors attended the sixth annual convention of the Master Barbers' Association of America (700 nationwide chapters). Present, of-course, was far-sighted President Otto Ewert of Chicago. Early he struck the progressive note which was to dominate the convention. "It is necessary," said he, "to popularize the facial. Men may consider the facial effeminate. Once they thought the same of brushing their teeth." President Ewert's sentiments were promptly echoed by the barbers assembled. Said one: "Those of us who rely entirely...
Lest this new movement sound far too idealistic to be of practical importance, it is of importance to note that the theory of alumni education has already been adopted in one form or another at several colleges in this country. and with the most gratifying results. Such contacts have taken the form of reading lists as at. Dartmouth, and alumni short term sessions as at Lafayette, and in every case the response by the alumni to such efforts on the part of the college has shown that alumni education is a field which is pregnant with possibilities, but which...
...facts submitted to show just how serious the affair really is. But these afore-mentioned hour examinations. The Vagabond has to admit. Prevented the gathering of the much needed information. So the best that The Vagabond can give the world at present writing is the political note in the preceding paragraph...