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Others said?It was the first serious reverse for Hooverism; the Hoover vote was confined to the cities, betraying his grave unpopularity among farmers; the lightness of the vote beat Hoover; were he a potent vote-getter a big vote would have turned out; if ever there was a State where he should have been able to win it was Indiana, where Candidate Watson's local machine had been shockingly exposed as corrupt and Klan-ridden. Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon executed for the Chicago Tribune a picture entitled: "This will make the race interesting to watch," showing Candidate Hoover...
Feeling ran high in Niagara Falls. The Elks met and a mass meeting of citizens was planned. Coast Guardsmen Glenn Jennings and Chris Dew were held by the State police, the former perhaps for murder. In Washington, the Prohibition Bureau was badly embarrassed. Only that week, Agent Robert L. Taylor had had to be dismissed in West Virginia for shooting into an automobile. Before that there was an outcry from Canadians who complained that U. S. rum guards had fired across the boundary line at Detroit. Near Fresno, Calif., one Frank Aiello was lately shot dead for not stopping...
...Florida bank examiner's report showed that Mayor Lake's bank owed nearly $1,000,000 and that he had swindled the city of Sanford out of several hundred thousand. A fortnight ago, Mr. Lake aged 62, was sentenced to 14 years of hard labor in the state penitentiary...
...Received with approving cries of "Hear! Hear!" from members of all parties a statement by Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain concerning the proposal of U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg that a treaty "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy" be signed among the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan (TIME, April 30). Sir Austen said that the Dominions must be consulted before His Majesty's Government can formulate a reply, but that "it will be to the effect of our desire to cooperate in the conclusion of such a compact...
...with. Those more scientifically-minded pointed to the fact that if during the deep depressions and maniac excitements of insanity, patients are oblivious of their appearance, become dirty, disorderly, slovenly when left to themselves, they would be equally oblivious of the daintiest creams and cosmetics. Only when the psychotic state has changed, when they are again aware of the outside world and the need of adjustment to it, do patients remember how they look. Interest in beauty aids is probably a manifestation rather than a cause of returning sanity...