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Political blundering, with no fine poetry to speak for its defence, he found an easy mark; yet he derived no satisfaction from the support which the modern debacle gave to his doctrines. He fought in a desperate cause; indeed, in President Lowell's phrase "with the courage to proclaim unpopular opinions in troubled times." The heroic tenacity he showed in his life, as in his convictions, gave him strength to rise daily from his sick-bed to lecture throughout the last eight months, nor did he let his illness impair his amazing tolerance and accessibility. Now that death has swept...
Alfred Emanuel Smith: A master of State administration, as shown by his record as Governor of New York; a statesman with the courage to proclaim unpopular opinions in a time of trouble...
...after day last week Vice President Garner mounted his Senate rostrum, turtled his chin gravely down into his collar and ordered big-bodied Sergeant-at-arms Chesley W. Jurney to proclaim as follows...
...wilfully, deliberately and viciously attempted to nullify the operation of the laws for the punishment of crime in the State of Virginia." Cried Representative Smith: "I do not contend that a judge may be impeached for an honest difference of opinion but I do aver and proclaim that a judge is impeachable who is either, first, so ignorant of the law as to be flagrantly incompetent or, second, who knowing the law, releases on the world a self-confessed murderer of the most vicious type." Stirred to immediate action the House voted (209-to-150) to have its Judiciary Committee...
...gold content of the dollar up to 50 per cent. This power will permit him to cooperate with other powers for the restoration of an international gold standard at a lower level. If no such agreement can be reached at the World Economic Conference, the President will proclaim a devaluation of the dollar to meet that of foreign currencies whose depreciation is hurting U. S. trade...