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...Democrats have been able to teach Republicans anything about national politics. But from the last congressional campaign the G. O. P. learned from the Democracy two tricks: 1) having the national party organization function continuously, instead of just before a campaign; 2) employing a smart, persistent publicity man. To staunch the flow of crack anti-Republican propaganda which emanated from the office of Democratic Director of Publicity Charles Michelson, the Republicans hired James West from the Washington bureau of the Associated Press. Last week steps were taken to make the Republican campaign headquarters permanent and potent, like the organization built...
...joyous rather than bloody revolution, cast their sick and aged hombre out and down. They had watched him take their overwhelming vote of two years ago as a lcense to behave as an autocrat, as a dictator more absolute and infinitely more unreasonable than Signor Benito Mussolini. Being staunch Democrats, the people could stand such tyranny no longer-especially in view of Argentina's current business slump, "hard times," and the provokingly low price Argentines now get for grain...
...week's most astonishing turn against the Farm Board's wheat policy occurred not on the Legge-Hyde barnstorming trip but in Washington where Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, staunch Administration supporter, joined the hue and cry for the Board to buy more wheat. Earlier in the week, through the Republican National Committee, Senator Capper had issued a political statement praising the Board and its chairman. Mr. Legge's appointment, he said, "has proved one of the most notable to public service in many years." President Hoover, he insisted, had fulfilled his farm aid pledges of the campaign...
Less responsible organs of Fascist opinion than Il Popolo egged on the current Italo-French war scare by charging that sums voted by the French Parliament will be "diverted eastward" and spent as a "secret subsidy" on the Army of Jugo-slavia's Dictator-King Alexander, staunch, bantam ally of France...
...staunch Administration Senator who is rarely invited socially to the White House is Daniel O. Hastings of Delaware. Said Senator Hastings to the Delaware State Society in Washington: "The President entertains the irregulars at the White House to get them to change their votes while conservative Republicans like my colleague [Senator John G. Townsend Jr.] and myself have to seek entertainment elsewhere...