Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Hoover last week acknowledged Secretary Mellon's cautious endorsement of Hooverism, by letting it be known -some said he told President Coolidge in person-that if President Coolidge would run again, he, the Administration's busy Beaver Man would of course withdraw his own candidacy and continue at his duties...
...scapegoat is never an enviable one, and when one person hears the burden of a whole organization's misdeeds sympathy will probably be slow in coming. The case of Mrs. Florence Knapp, who has just been convicted of larceny committed while Secretary of State of New York, is not quite the same because it was unusual enough to arouse public interest. Women have been singularly unfortunate in their political adventures of late years, and no one forgets the debacle of "Ma" Ferguson in Tex, but when prominent Republican leaders admitted that her only fault was in not covering her tracks...
...Administration declared itself wholeheartedly on the side of Hooverism, there would have been an end not only of Candidate Lowden but of his program. But the Administration, in the person of Secretary Mellon, declared itself last fortnight not so much in favor of Hooverism as receptive to it for want of anything more perfect. There seemed to remain a cranny of doubt about Candidate Hoover's ability to bring off a Republican victory. Into this cranny Candidate Lowden hastened to drive his wedge of Midwestern warning...
...above the Supreme Court in New Jersey is a Court of Errors and Appeals. This court, reviewing the evidence, noted that only two of the 40 policemen at the scene had feared a riot; that the only hint of trouble "which would be entertained by a person of a firm and courageous mind" was when some of Baldwin's marchers had, perhaps accidentally, brushed against policemen in passing. "Judgment reversed," said the high court last week, unanimously...
...Persons not members of the University are not allowed to occupy rooms in dormitories, which are under the supervision of a College officer. No person not a member of the University may be lodged in a College dormitory without the permission of the Proctor or the Regent...