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...know Commissioner Mackin tosh were not surprised at the commotion his challenge 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...
...United States' imperialistic policy registers a new success," gloomed Il Lavoro Fascisti, organ of potent labor syndicates. "It was necessary for the United States to remove the only man [ex-Presi- dent Hipólito Irigoyen of Argentina] in the South American republics who was unwilling to submit to a policy of dominion by the great stellar republic...
Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, personal physician to President Wilson, returned from England, revealed that David Lloyd George had told him: "The outstanding figure in America politically, in my judgment, is Owen D. Young. I should not be surprised to see him Presi- dent before...
...moral passion but no religious convictions, Hayes believed in temperance, served no liquor at the White House. Once visiting diplomats thought he had slipped when they tasted a punch and detected the flavor of rum; but the Presi dent had fooled them, it was only the flavor they tasted. Hayes would have liked a second term, but believed one was enough, stuck to his conviction. His party politicians were glad of his decision, hoped their next man would not prove so uncompromising against the spoils system. Back in Ohio, Hayes enlarged his house, saw his friends, read many a book...
...Austin Co. which is building an entire Russian city "Austin-grad" (TIME, Sept. 16), the U. S. Shipping Board which has sold a merchant fleet to Russia (TIME, Jan. 27). But until last week no great U. S. corporation had made the supreme sacrifice of lending its presi dent for several years to the Soviet Government...