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...controversial hypotheses will look to the President and Fellows as the only truthful authority to settle their disputes. A committee on the truth of ancient and modern theories will have to be formed. There will spring up in all parts of the world societies for the prevention of slander on Isaac Newton, or Keppler. University Hall will be flooded by letters demanding the truth about the "apple hypothesis of the discovery of gravity" or research on the theory that each star has its little guardian angel pushing it through space. Others will ask for proof that Pythagoras first heard...
...head. He accused the U. S. of using more opium and narcotic drugs than the people of India, whose sacred rights he was also representing.- Such absurd charges all but broke up the conference. Mr. Porter took the earliest opportunity of rising to confront Lord Cecil with his black slander on the U. S. A situation had undoubtedly been created that called for diplomatic handling. Mr. Porter was anything but suave, he fell in Lord Cecil's error, replied angrily that the charge was a false and vile slander. Once Lord Cecil arose to withdraw his statement...
LaFollette erected a case maintaining that: 1) If Pennsylvania's quota is $600,000, the National Republican treasure trove must be $4,000,000 or $5,000,000; 2) "Use elsewhere" meant use in the Middle West; 3) "This campaign to raise enormous slush fund is based on malicious slander and libel. The New York Times says this conspiracy was initiated by William M. Butler, Chairman Republican National Committee, in conference with W. T. Mellon, brother of Secretary of Treasury, and Edward T. Stotesbury, partner of J. P. Morgan...
...Wayne Cook, grand old dame of the convention, President- General of the D. A. R., pronounced prophetic syllables regarding Prohibition. "Are we to receive our principles from the eminence of a soap box? Are the guarantees of free speech and of a free press to deliver us to malicious slander ? Is liberty to become license ? No, a thousand times no! Prohibition is the will of the people, and shall prevail. The Volstead Act will never be repealed...