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From the moment President Roosevelt called for a copy of the Democratic platform, clipped out its beer plank, signed his name to it and sent it to Congress as a special message, there never was any serious doubt about the quick return of beer. Inescapable was the necessity for new revenue to help balance the Budget. Estimate of the Government's first year's income...
...revenue-only. In 1910 he damned the Payne-Aldrich law as "a miserable travesty, an ill-designed patchwork, a piece of brazen legislative jobbery" and in 1932 he flayed the Hawley-Smoot act as "utterly disastrous to our trade." Long an advocate of tariff reciprocity, he wrote that plank into the last Democratic platform. As President Roosevelt's Secretary of State his job will be to negotiate tariff treaties. Senator Hull's world views: "The mad pursuit of economic nationalism or aloofness-every nation striving to live unto itself-has proved utterly empty and disastrous. The practice...
...forces air in & out the lungs. Dr. Eve, who is consulting physician to the Royal Infirmary at Hull, 'finds this teeterboard respirator effective in acute diseases; it relieves the patient from any breathing effort. For infants a rocking chair serves just as well as a pivoted stretcher or plank...
Puerto Ricans, mindful of the Democratic plank promising "ultimate Statehood," turned thumbs down on the Nationalist (independence) party, voted an overwhelming majority in the insular Legislature to Socialist and Republican candidates...
...forgotten woman Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, plenty of "What happened? . . . Let's take a look. . . . Let us go back. . . ." An Al Smith occasion and an Al Smith speech in less than his most thoughtful vein, it accomplished one thing for his party: claiming credit for the Democratic wet plank, he placed it squarely against the Republican wet-&-dry one, left the way open for Governor Roosevelt, at Baltimore, to carry...