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Therefore the President must choose two men so potent that their personal prestige alone will cause their opinions to prevail. Sources of the highest authenticity affirmed, last week, that Calvin Coolidge had chosen John Pierpont Morgan and Owen D. Young, after obtaining assurance of their cooperation...
...pledge to President-elect Herbert Hoover the untiring support and earnest prayers of Methodists throughout the land to the end that the will of the people directed against the age-old evil of drink shall prevail...
...Alfred E. Smith, from present indications, will receive a clear majority of both the popular and electoral votes to be cast this fall. No such jugglery as followed and set aside the elections of 1868 and 1876 can prevail...
Summons. "Now that the storm of battle is clearing away, I hope I can prevail upon you to spend a night in Albany . . . and confer with me on the conduct and issues of the campaign in which we are all engaged together . . . soon."-Alfred E. Smith, last week, to Missouri's white-crested, Republican-flaying Senator James A. Reed. Senator Reed telephoned from St. Louis that he would go East directly...
Said Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, who regularly outsmarts Government lawyers: "Justice has been done. . . . It is time the Walshes, Nyes and Norrises should learn that prosecutions of this kind cannot prevail...