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...indicate that the party might stop weasling, might devise a new, Wetter formula at the Chicago convention to match the shifting sentiment of the past twelve years. What the formula would be was anybody's guess but there was no doubt that the idea of a referendum plank has lately gained great strength among G. O. P. leaders. Seven straws...
...Emerging from the White House, Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, declared: "There is very strong agitation in favor of a Wet plank of some kind among Republicans. The party will have to adopt some kind of platform to meet the changed situation...
...Senators Barbour and Kean of New Jersey informed President Hoover that their State's G. O. P. endorsed his renomination but demanded a Prohibition repeal plank in the national platform. President Hoover was silent. Washington is now completely satisfied that he will run again this year...
...recently installed a new senate government. The University of Wisconsin is considering changes which will cure the ills existent under a system of the old school. Students at DePauw are criticizing their government and agitation is being carried on to obliterate politics. The Daily Northwestern runs as a platform plank on its editorial page the program, "Develop a strong, central student governing body...
...future of German agriculture, and captured the farm vote. A new economic theory is being created for the Hitler polity. Interest will be abolished and the medium of exchange will be unsecured paper, but property will still be in private hands. Hatred of France is another popular plank in the platform...