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Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, staunch member of the school of regular Republicanism, unleashed stinged words of irony. He referred to the way in which Mr. LaFollette wrote his own platform and handed it to the Progressive Convention in Cleveland, ordering: "Nominate me on these terms." Said Mr. Pepper...
Prof. VV. C. Bagley, Teachers College, Columbia University, staunch worker for the Sterling-Reed Bill, evoked "a storm of applause" by denouncing Democratic and Republican discourtesies to education. He was for supporting a Third Party en masse if its platform carried the proper plank...
...question was?would it 'be a Coolidge platform or a Congress platform? William M. Butler saw that it was a Coolidge platform. Charles B. Warren, Ambassador to Mexico, staunch friend of Coolidge, was placed in charge of the drafting. From his Committee of some 50 members, 16 were chosen to do the actual construction. First brief public hearings were held. Then the Subcommittee drafted the document. Then the entire Commitee considered and approved it, with minor amendments. Then the Republican Delegates, in convention assembled, formally approved...
Harding. Devotion to the memory of Warren G. Harding because of his human qualities, unswerving devotion to duty, staunch Republicanism, true patriotism, achievement in the Limitation of Arms Conference...
...solemn, strong, sober; as a leader he is cool, discreet, able. In politics he is a staunch Unionist, and an unbending Imperialist, has "no foolish fastidiousness about democratic principles." As an orator he is a failure, but as a man of action he is "a national asset." Two un-Irish features stand out in his physiognomy and character; he has an egg-shaped head with eyes deep set and far apart; he is "an Irishman without a sense of humor...