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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd applauded but the full significance of Carpenter's throw was comprehended by few of them. Discus records are little-known figures and it takes a long search through the track archives to discover that Carpenter had broken the University record by nearly 20 feet and the intercollegiate record by over...
...political entity, he said: "You will search in vain for a more ideal Executive than President Coolidge. The American people have already indicated their determination to keep him where he is. ... Upon the farm, among the hills of Vermont, was nourished a life which knows the frugality, the industry, the treasuring of every opportunity for selfhelp, the pursuit of knowledge despite all difficulties, the fine aspirations and patriotic ideals of what we take delight in regarding as the typical American home. The old tree is still bearing the finest fruit. President Coolidge is his own platform. . . . No other platform...
...except "head" and that the only advances which have been made by humanity--advances of an unusually materialistic sort--have resulted more or less directly from the efficient "headword" of those who have trained themselves to doubt--one is inclined to distrust ahe murmurings of the heart and to search for facts upon which the head can work. At present, there is no fact more certain than that the heart does indeed control the springs of action. If this must always be so, the future of man looks dark...
...Under a procedure of this kind, the constitutional guarantees against unwarranted search and seizure break down, the prohibition against what amounts to a Government charge of criminal action without the formal presentment of a Grand Jury is evaded, the rules of evidence which have been adopted for the protection of the innocent are ignored, the department becomes the victim of vague unformulated and indefinite charges, and instead of a Government of law we have a Government of lawlessness. . . . It is time that we return to a Government under and in accordance with the usual forms...
...President had searched the country to find the greatest antithesis of Mr. Daugherty, he might well have discovered Mr. Stone in that way. But no such widespread search was necessary. Stone was an Amherst man. He had been born and reared at Chesterfield, in New Hampshire, right next to Vermont. From Amherst he was graduated in '94 when Cal Coolidge was a Junior. Four years later he was graduated from Columbia Law School. Thereafter he began simultaneously to practice law and to teach (at Columbia). He became a member of the firm of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone...