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Stop Roosevelt? Chicago started fill ing up with Democrats even before it was emptied of Republicans. "We'll put on a show that will make the Republican shindig look like child's play," boasted Jouett Shouse, Washington headquarters director and candidate for the convention's permanent chairmanship. What promised to make the Democratic show thoroughly exciting was the paramount question: "Can Franklin Delano Roosevelt be stopped short of the nomination...
...expression of confidence. Minister of War Colonel Carlos Guerrero relayed President Ayora 's query to minions. Officers of the Chimborazo battalion of engineers answered that they would like to revolt. Officers of the Bolivar battalion of artillery said they would like to participate in such a shindig. It was an effective boo. President Ayora ordered Congress convened to consider his "integrity." Congress decided his integrity was none of their business. There upon President Ayora proffered his resignation. Congress, unanimous except for President Manuel Navarro of the Chamber of Deputies, snatched the resignation. Left to preside over Ecuador was Colonel...
...donkey over the path once hoofed by the famous metal-worker, Paul Revere, pointing out on the way the common of Lexington and the minute man (not a railroad train) there standing guard. Wandering on to Concord--what an appropriate name that is for the home of our big shindig--he will elucidate to the assembled Vagabonds the story of the shot heard round the world. For he feels that only a wanderer can show a good Bostonian the beauties of the local scene. The Vagabond has no birthplace and no local pride, and so he has been able...
...first was a prayerful appeal to U. S. womanhood. The second was an awesome exegesis of the Coolidge message. The third was a smashing summary designed to picture Republicans on a peak of noble humanitarianism, the Democrats in a morass of "clamor," "clap trap" and "calumny" engaged in a "shindig...
...field day," a shindig, the kind Denver loves. People scratched their heads to think up things they wanted or did not want. One man offered voice lessons for a tombstone. One wanted to swap a steamer trunk for a suitcase and grip. One wrote: "Will decorate your home as first payment on used car." Another: "Canary, fine singer; sell for $5." Police had to regulate the queues of would-be advertisers. Thirsty automobiles jammed the publishing districts...