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...heartily approve my party's declaration that it will be responsive to the popular expression on these referendum questions. ... If a majority are recorded as favorable to repeal of the 18th Amendment, I stand ready, when elected Senator, to obey their mandate and I shall vote to submit the question of its repeal to the several States. If the expressed will of the people is for modification of the Volstead Act, my course would be in sympathy with the principle so approved...
...offered fat sums (reputedly $5.000) for a print. They wired "The Chief" in California, even besought Grandfather Dwight Morrow to intercede for them. More furious, if possible, was Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the Daily News. Heatedly but futilely he demanded that A. P. General Manager Kent Cooper obey the A. P. rules, supply the News with a picture...
...terrible rage, seeing her blood about to be balked of the Throne a second time, and again by a woman of the people, ambitious Isabella ordered Albrecht to take a cruise to South America "to forget."* With crafty meekness, Son Albrecht said he would obey his compelling, imperial mother. He duly set out for South America as she commanded, but stopped off for a day in Belgium to ruin her life work...
Like the least of his subjects, George V, King and Emperor, Defender of the Faith, must obey even laws which to a gentle man and a sportsman seem pettifogging and absurd...
...Methodist Episcopal Church, South last week concluded the first fortnight of its quadrennial conference at Dallas. Some important church work was accomplished ?decision to increase the number of bishops from 13 to 16; decision to abolish "serve him'' and "obey him." from the marriage service; invention of a new sin for ministers ("gross impudence and high unministerial conduct"). But of more immediate interest to the conference was the tussle between Bishop James Cannon Jr. of Virginia and Layman Josephus Daniels...