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...giving their time and services in the cause of a humanitarian ideal. On the other hand it requires very little courage to heckle and boo and pelt grapefruit from the comforting security of the crowd, and clowning always draws approbation. The next logical step would be to overturn the hearse at a funeral amid shouts of laughter...
...Senator Reed bitterly flayed the Wheeler silver amendment: "It would be giving a great cash bonus to India and perhaps China. . . . Panic and crisis would be precipitated. . . . We'd see a flight of capital that would take our breath away. . . . There would be such a catastrophic overturn of American business that all the benefits would be obviated. . . . It's like stealing from one class to help another. ... I don't believe that the people of the United States have gone dishonest overnight because we're having a spell of hard times...
...large salt shaker which he holds between his fingers. Under the Senate rules, he votes only to break a tie. He is not permitted to join in legislative debate or make any kind of speech. His utterances are confined to cut & dried parliamentary rulings which a Senate majority can overturn at will. On his Senate throne he is a glorified policeman, keeping peace in the chamber but powerless to influence any of its deliberations...
...Governor Roosevelt and Tammany Hall which might cost the Democratic nominee the State and perhaps the Presidency, a profusion of Republican candidates blossomed in the gubernatorial garden. The State had been in Democratic hands for nearly ten years but now there seemed to be a good chance for an overturn. Active and passive contenders for the G. 0. P. nomination included...
...Democratic by a 232,000-vote plurality. Even the Republicans there attributed their defeat to the disfavor of the national administration. In 1928 Kentucky was President Hoover's with 177.000 votes to spare. Last week it was lost to a Republican nominee for Governor by 71.523 votes. A spectacular overturn in a hidebound Republican district in Michigan turned the House of Representatives Democratic. Connecticut, carried by President Hoover by 44,574 votes three years ago, saw its two largest cities swing into the Democratic column. When Mr. Hoover entered the White House, his party had 56 Senators, 267 Congressmen...