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...other sport showed a deficit. Crew cost Yale the most, $65,618; the Gun Club, least expensive, was a $651 luxury. Visiting teams pocketed a third of the huge football monies. The rest went toward promoting adequate padding and feed for Yale athletes, toward athletic education, toward that potent plank in every college sales talk, "Athletics...
...personally favor a plank referring to the Eighteenth Amendment and the laws enacted to carry it into effect, and I favor a plank pledging the nominee to a fair, vigorous and faithful enforcement of them. In my opinion, it is the greatest moral issue of all ages, and public sentiment demands that both of the political parties declare themselves unequivocally upon it. Should I be nominated and elected President I favor meeting the issue squarely and believe in the strict and energetic enforcement of the laws to carry out the constitutional amendment...
...favorite son movements indicates an attempt to draw votes from Hoover by these local choices, votes that may later be given to Dawes or Lowden. Young Mr. Roosevelt with his attacks on Smith is doing much to damage Republican prestige. Disrupting are Borah's attempts to force a plank on Prohibition. But on the whole, the Republicans' present prosperous administration gives them an inestimable advantage. And with the parties representing, as they do now, two nearly equal, mighty, and issueless machines for the nomination for president by political bosses, a split in the Democratic party would be inevitably fatal...
...among themselves, the Democrats dined together last week in the name of their greatest fighter?Andrew Jackson. Desiring to unite behind one man and on one platform, they suppressed their enthusiasm for their most popular man?Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was not present?and they tiptoed across a central plank in his platform?Prohibition, which loomed in the minds...
...Again, the movement is characterized by opposition to communism and the principle of class struggle. A very whole some negative plank is that which aims to kill the provincial quarrels and national divisions. The new patriotism aims to abolish civil war, banditry, military chiefs and war lords, in order to preserve the people before they perish...