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...Staunch Advocate of League...
...Always a staunch Republican, Collector Nichols appealed to many of the G. O. P. faction in Boston as Mayor Curley's term neared its end. The Nichols boom stated comparatively late, but by midsummer he appeared to be among the strongest mayoralty candidates among the large number then mentioned as possibilities...
...Dalton, Mass., a tablet was last week unveiled "To W. MURRAY CRANE, 1853-1920," one of the great figures in Republican politics in the decade before the War. He was Governor of Massachusetts from 1900 to 1903, and U. S. Senator from 1904 to 1913. He was a staunch party man, although he did not hesitate to oppose his colleagues on occasion, as for example when he supported the League of Nations after the War, opposing his erstwhile colleague, Senator Lodge...
Unsatisfied, he whirred away to Berlin, spoke as follows to correspondents: "A staunch and lasting understanding between the Soviet Union and Poland has a universal significance and repercussion. . . . On both sides a firm will was maintained to remove with the greatest energy everything disturbing our relations...
That Fundamentalism will again be championed at the University was assured last night with the announcement that the Reverend John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of New York City, and nationally prominent as a staunch opponent of the theory of evolution, has definitely accepted the invitation of the Phillips Brooks House Association to lecture here on Thursday, October...