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...most compelling negative reasons (i.e. against Hoover) I have for voting for Mr. Smith is that I don't like the former's crowd, as somebody has put it. I can't help contrasting "I owe my nomination to no man or group of men," which I believe to be absolute truth, with Senator Norris' statement that at the Kansas City convention it was Vare who at the Psychological moment put Hoover across--which I also believe to be absolute truth. James F. Concagh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whitewash | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

...view both to authenticity of the individual signatures and as to numbers. We have found that the total exceeds the 445 names reported to the CRIMSON. Tuesday. Our files, however, will be kept open for further inspection by those whose suspicions are still alive. In the meantime we owe and gladly proffer an apology to Mr. Breithut, and assure him that his name will not again appear on our membership files...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corrected | 10/18/1928 | See Source »

...from me to refuse this simple request, but I owe it to myself, not to say to Thousands of trusting widows and orphans, to correct one or two details in this very illuminating letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newer | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

...owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Embarrassed Council | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...grandiose ambitions natives of this district owe their emergence from obscurity to empire. To the renowned beauty of the imperial princesses of his line they owe the foreign alliances which for centuries secured their independence. But to the topography of their country they owe most. This plateau, sloping to the southeastern angle of the Black Sea, is cut off from the rest of Asia Minor by a barrier of rugged mountains, blessing it with political and climatic isolation. Rarely above 88° in summer or below 10° in winter, the weather, humid, temperate, contrasts with that of not distant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Snow | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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