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...unanimously elected president to serve until another president should be elected, and there was a great demonstration in which shirt-sleeved men paraded in feathered Indian headdress, girls blew kisses at the platform. With similar unanimity, the Convention adopted its political resolutions, couched in a churchly laudamus style : "We reaffirm our faith in American institutions, particularly our faith in the Constitution. . . . We praise that document. . . . We praise. . . . We further praise. . . Lastly we praise the Constitution in its entirety and inclusive of its amendments. . . . Finally, lest specification detract from the fullness of our sanction, we publish our unreserved and unqualified endorsements...
This is an appropriate moment in the history of the world to celebrate the idea of a university and to take the occasion to define and to reaffirm most especially the basic relation between teaching and scholarship on the one hand, the power and the policies of government on the other. The Harvard anniversary is a most suitable occasion. For Harvard stands unqualifiedly for the principle that unless they are independent of each other the relation between universities and governments will not be healthy...
Frank Hague, Mayor of Jersey City stood up to offer a resounding resolution which began by proposing "that we ... reaffirm our unanimous and unfaltering loyalty to our great President" and ended with a tribute to "the leader whose match less courage and faith in the people of our land has given the world an example of pure devotion to public duty and genius in statesmanship that will cause to stand out in the annals of humanity the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt!" Less quick-witted than usual, Boss Farley called for a vote on the resolution. To the mortification...
...Meritorious One, a title officially conferred on him by Venezuela's Congress. For fun he brought famed Juan Belmont from Spain to fight bulls, played much with his favorite toy: a barber chair specially imported from the U. S. So many citizens hurried out to Maracay to reaffirm their loyalty by his coffin last week that the road was blocked for hours...
Cried the Dictator, raising his frothing glass of Italian champagne first: "We have worked not only to bring about agreement on particular questions concerning our two countries but also to reaffirm the ideals which come from our community of origin! The visit of our distinguished guest is of vast European significance, the first meeting point in the policies of two great Latin states...