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Breaking the story in the nearby Salem Oregon Statesman (circ. 15,798), Republican ex-Governor Charles A. Sprague last week charged M & F with trying to dictate the editorial policies of the press. He also pointed a moral: "Accusations of newspaper subservience to advertisers have been freely made in late years, particularly by left-wingers [and] New Dealers ... An incident like this plays right into [their] hands...
...belief that the world is round and an admiration of the statesman's "view of all the world...
...Fixit. For whatever good it might do, Adhemar was careful to drop in on War Minister Canrobert Pereira da Costa and Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, both presidential possibilities themselves. One rumor had him offering the foreign ministry to Elder Statesman Oswaldo Aranha. Said Aranha: "Pooh-pooh...
While building a reputation as a conservative Republican statesman on Capitol Hill, Colorado's able, lucid Gene Millikin had sadly neglected the first principle of the politicians' trade. Only a few Colorado voters knew their junior Senator personally; his political fences were sagging with disrepair. By last week the fact stood out like Gene Millikin's huge bald dome on a sunny day: one of the strongest Republicans in Senate councils was in for the battle of his political life...
...year was 1882, a riotous time in the history of the evangelical army. In a way it was a day of victory for the Generals Booth and their followers. Statesman John Bright later wrote Catherine: "The people who mobbed you would doubtless have mobbed the apostles. Your faith and patience will prevail...