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...nomination speeches, the adoption of a platform, and the first ballots for a Presidential candidate. Strong opposition to the nomination of Governor Smith has made itself felt in the Harvard Democratic ranks, and an intense and prolonged contest may result. A hot struggle is likely tonight over the prohibition plank in the platform...
Thus either Mr. Meyer, personifying his Standard Oil Co., or Sir Henri, personifying his Royal Dutch-Shell group, is like the dog of the fable, who with a good, juicy bone in his mouth walked onto a plank over a stream. In the water below he saw another dog with another bone, and he wanted the other bone...
...legislative victories and lamented the defection of all but three Congressmen, including himself and New York's vociferous La Guardia, from what was once a bloc of ten House "radicals." Mr. Berger, as chairman of the party's executive committee, promised a light-wines-&-beer plank in the Socialist platform...
...Thompson will take up the trust question in relation to big business in order to aid in the formulation of the trust plank in the domestic platform of the club. He was prominent in the administration of President Wilson, and has been mentioned by a number of leading Democrats as a possible dark horse candidate for the next Presidency...
...amazement was professed at the White House, but no statement came forth, con or pro. Observers judged that amazement of another sort was felt privately at the White House when Mayor Thompson's "Coolidge-anyway" movement in Chicago came out last week with a platform which included the plank: "Repeal the Volstead...