Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because women have had equal representation on their National Committee since 1920. The Democratic National Committee was especially delighted by the discovery of the statement in the Press-Herald of Portland, Me.: " No doubt the Democratic National Committee will also adopt this idea without very much delay." At that remark the Democratic National Committee " almost despaired." It also took occasion to point out that the dissatisfaction among Republican women which caused the new arrangement in their favor, was partly brought about by knowledge of the similar gallantry shown to Democratic women three years earlier...
...History Is Bunk." Mr. Henry Ford's remark of four year's ago about history has been duplicated this year by a remark about the Bible. In his John Burroughs' Talks, Chapter 20, Clifton Johnson reports the great naturalist as follows: "One day I was telling him (Ford) what a great book I thought the Bible was ?what noble literature; and he said: ' I haven't read it much, but I tell you what I think?Emerson's books and Thoreau's and yours (Burroughs') will be read after the Bible is forgotten.' " If Mr. Ford knew more history...
Next day the Tribune replied: "Mr. Bryan says we misrepresented him We'd regret that if it were true, but it isn't"-going on to accuse Mr. Bryan of using "the favorite trick of the political dialectician" and ending with the remark: "We are not quarreling with Mr. Bryan because he believes or disbelieves but because he wants laws to make other people do and think as he does...
Though he spends his life poking fun at the foibles of mankind, he seldom makes a bitter remark about a friend. As an after dinner speaker, he is successful; but not at Rotary Clubs. I think of him as a combination of H. L. Mencken and Martin Luther. Yet he is not fanatical in his humorous creeds. He is writing a serious novel in which he firmly believes, and has written a play which, he tells us, was neither humorous, serious nor good; but then, Mr. Stewart, among many other things, is a modest...
Anti-Hearst papers remark that if Hearst thought a third party had a chance to win he would be advocating not Ford but Hearst to lead...