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...delineation of a program for the State, it was just the sort of paper to be expected from a conventional presidential candidate?care- fully balanced, shrewdly generalized, replete with phrases like bright empty bottles into which any man could pour his own meaning. Newsmen, overanxious to make a "story," outdid themselves reading national significance into his words. Excerpts...
...crowd was as large as last year and vastly more enthusiastic, and for once Harvard outdid Yale in cheering...
Radicals for Hoover Fortunate -the radical newspapers sympathized with President Hoover's idealism. Moreover the entire French Cabinet outdid themselves in efforts to present the Hoover note in a favorable light to an angry and mistrustful Chamber of Deputies. Pa- tiently, tirelessly, Premier Pierre Laval explained and re-explained to the Chamber that President Hoover delivered no "ultimatum" to France. Repeatedly the alleged "abrupt" and "threatening" character of the President's proposals was flayed by Deputies. When Premier Laval, looking more than ever like a red-faced, perspiring butcher, soothingly observed, "Mr. Hoover has even sent Mr. Mellon to Paris...
Publisher William Randolph Hearst's Journal nearly outdid the tabloids in baring the VICE GIRL'S SECRETS. Two days later it was its lot to headline: JURY GETS VICE MURDER DIARY; VIVIAN'S CHILD KILLED BY SHAME...
...resembled Theodore Roosevelt in his ability to meet everyone in his own field whether it were theology science, history, or engineering, but he outdid the American in the fluency with which he spoke other languages. It was a love of learning that led Kaiser Wilhelm to send the wonderful collection of casts to the Germanic Museum as a token of his interest in Harvard...