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...world record seemed to be within U. S. grasp. Walter Snell of Providence, R. I. flew a one-kilometre course at 38.7 m. p. h. Existing world record: Germany...
Minority Leader Snell went into the well to make the Republican retort: "I've listened to the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee's speech of acceptance. ... He has made a more direct appeal for class distinction than has been made this session. If the Speaker ever made a demagogic appeal, he made that appeal here today...
...policemen (like Nominee Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing). He was rescued by Hearst newshawks, allowed to pour out his grievances: "This is a colossal piece of political racketeering. I was going to put the name of Calvin Coolidge before the convention and it would have stampeded them. And Snell knew it. The nomination of this man Hoover is invalid...
...Other votes: U. S. Minister to Canada Mac-Xider, 182 3/4; General Harbord, 161 3/4; Alvan Fuller, onetime Governor of Massachusetts, 57; Snell, 56; all others, 55 1/2 absent...
Another Rogerism: "He [Chairman Snell] said that while our Savior had rescued the world in Biblical times from the Democrats, masquerading as the Medes and Persians, that Herbert Hoover was the modern Savior. In fact he kinder gave the engineer the edge over the carpenter...