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...Disability, Demise or Resignation?" That Germany has not been driven to the last extremes, became cheerfully apparent when General Litzmann ended his harang as Speaker pro tem, and the Reichstag proceeded quietly to re-elect as its regular Speaker huge Hauptmann (Captain) Hermann Wilhelm Goring, a Fascist who has put on at least 75 Ib. since he took over command of the late, great Baron von Richthofen's squadron of German flying aces...
...months is the approximate period necessary to dissolve a Reichstag and re-elect another. This year President von Hindenburg has already dissolved two Reichstags. Dare he dissolve a third? To do so would be equivalent to breaking once & for all with the German Republic, setting up a pure dictatorship...
Finale. It was a doleful and dispirited little group of Cabinet stumpsters who scattered to their homes to vote last week at the end of what they feared had been a long, hard, losing fight to re-elect Herbert Hoover. The betting odds were 5-to-1 against their President and candidate. Expert political newshawks on one Republican newspaper after another could see nothing but a Roosevelt sweep ahead. As if in a final gesture of desperation the President had dashed across the continent to add in person one more much-needed vote to his California total. Two million good...
...last week, Mrs. Ethel Roosevelt Derby, T. R.'s second daughter, halted her car at a filling station. "Gas?" asked the attendant. "No, radio," replied Mrs. Derby. Thereupon she tuned in the attendant's set, heard a familiar voice: "For the good of the nation we must re-elect Herbert Hoover. We don't want our country to be made a laboratory for wholesale experiments in government ownership, tariff tinkering or currency inflation. I don't accuse the Democratic standard bearer of advocating all these theories but any sensible individual knows that when you marry...
...commonplace of campaign talk has been that an upturn in business and prices would re-elect President Hoover. Last week, stock values on the New York Ex change had increased $12,149,022,329 since June. Last week's break in cotton of $4 per bale was set down as politically meaningless because the G. O. P. this year did not expect to repeat its 1928 achievements in the Solid South. Business failures for the last week in August (435) were at a nine months' low. The Federal Reserve Board, issuing its most optimistic weekly report in two years, showed...