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With those 47 words emitted last week by Postmaster General Farley, his politi cal mouthpiece, President Roosevelt, master politician, achieved no less than five major political points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Five Points, 47 Words | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...stirred up. He first proved himself an eminent disturber when he at tended the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1920 as a delegate from the State of Washington. Primary voters had instructed him to support the presi dential candidacy of Senator Hiram John son of California. Disregarding his politi cal pledges, he boldly boomed Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts for the Presidency. It was largely on the strength of his agitation that Governor Coolidge was nominated for the Vice-Presidency. President Coolidge later rewarded his boomer with a nomination to the U. S. Circuit Court. More disturbances followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: To the Guts | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...effective. . . . But there is no politi cal immorality in attempting to coerce a government by a general strike. [Barking his words] Governments exist to be coerced! . . . As for this bill?Hrr! ?it is a loud needle for the Communist gramophone. ... It will help the Communists to breed sedition, and gag a appeal to the better natures of everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Act II | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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