Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul speech was informal. Farm relief and inland waterways were but two of many subjects it touched. Other subjects...
There was, to begin with, hollow-cheeked, insurgent Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, where the trip started. He it is who is supposed to guard the Progressive mantle of the late, great LaFollette. The Omaha speech on farm relief received a nod of Norris approval. Of the Denver waterpower speech, Senator Norris said: "... Great! . . . We're up against the greatest monopoly, the greatest attempt at control of great resources, ever undertaken since the days of Jesus Christ!" The Omaha World-Herald, daily newspaper of the Brown Derby's advisor, onetime Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska...
...always had a leaning toward Rational Progressive policies." He has never stood for public office before and "was a very much surprised man" when, in August, the Farmer-Laborites asked him to run. He accepted, promising Farm Relief, a Prohibition referendum, States' rights, the Smith program for Boulder Dam, the G. O. P. policy on immigration, "adequate" Federal flood control, a non-partisan Cabinet...
...intelligently, one should follow party issues from far before the time that they become mere political slogans. Enthusiastic attendance at last minute discussions and oratorical contests is hardly sufficient to acquaint the average college listener with the bewildering vibrations of the political shuttle-cock as it bounces from farm relief to prohibition, from water power control to oil scandals. In a democracy, an educated man ought also to be an educated governor, and a college is remiss in a full performance of duty if it fails to equip its graduates with a working knowledge of public affairs. College courses, under...
...last scene shows the fight itself. Dempsey throws his hands around more wildly than he does in an off-stage ring but there are moments when he does not pull his punches. After his quiet, embarrassed performance in drawing-room or barber-shop episodes, it is a relief to see Jack Dempsey forget his good manners and exhibit gloves and socks. At the end of the fight, he embraces the girl...