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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President has many times announced a slight turn to the right (breathing spell, etc.), has always turned again to the left. Now, say the Washington wiseacres, he means really to do a right turn-proves it daily with deeds instead of words. Their evidence: Constantly Mr. Roosevelt appeases the Democratic conservatives, consistently he calls to heel the business-baiting Janizariat. To keep party harmony, he plans no reform legislation at Session III of the 76th Congress, will actively support none. He has dumped taxes in the Congressional lap; almost daily pinches budget appropriations for New Deal agencies, slashes down works...
Before the game the members of the band will spell out the letters of HARVARD, playing a different tune with each letter. "Our Director," "Soldiers Field," "Gridiron King," "10,000 Men," "Onward to the Goal," and "Score," a tun written especially for Yale games, will be played in that order. The band will then spell out ELI in script, and form an II facing the Harvard stands...
Ostensibly they were calls to employment, but there is no Empire theatre in Whitby or in Whitehaven. And the initials of the names in the first ad spell "Heil Hitler." The second can be read, "Germany will...
...Armistice Day medley will be the featured music while the band forms the letters HARLOW to the tune of "He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and a cannon shape from which it will shoot groups of players to spell ARMY...
Taft himself shared the inability of the country at large to shake off the spell of the Rough Rider; but Pringle's evidence makes it clear that in certain essential particulars Roosevelt left his friend to face the music. T. R.'s liberalism had somehow avoided the high tariff; Taft had to cope with that. T. R. had swung the big stick against the trusts; Taft had to make it connect. T. R. had been supple enough to play politics with a conservative Congress without seeming to do so; Taft had to temper Uncle Joe Cannon...