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Nevertheless, moderate Mr. Sibley could not prevent the convention from turning into a rousing Republican rally. The one successful effort on the part of the "constructive" minority to give the meeting a semblance of significance was a strategem concocted by Chicago's John William O'Leary, head of the Machinery & Allied Products Institute. He hastily released the Chamber's plan for a national survey to determine "our re-employment possibilities with a degree of accuracy which cannot be equaled in any other way." This was the first official reply of organized business to President Roosevelt...
...Revolution and the enemy of all Spanish Reds; the tactic which they have needed for so long seems to have been placed graciously in their cassocked laps: the opportunity to utilize their hold on the provincial women for political purposes. What may be the Socialists' countermove to this strategem can hardly be predicted. To rescind the suffrage would be awkward; to abide by the electorate's dictums may be disastrous...
...Aggies again last week, clinched its fifth Conference Championship in a row, 16 to 0. In three New York mud-puddles. Fordham nosed out Oregon State on a safety, 8-to-6, Columbia & Syracuse and Holy Cross & Manhattan played scoreless ties. Iowa State's Captain Magnussen performed a strategem suggested to him by Iowa State's new Coach Ossie Solem. He stood 20 paces away from a pile of burning straw, tossed a burning football shoe at it over his left shoulder. Next day Iowa State lost to Northwestern, 44-to-6. After 40 years of football against...
...awakened to the carriers' grievous condition. If it were shown that rates could not be upped, that costs could not be reduced, then the public might realize that only one remedy remained: wage reduction. Ex Parte 103 was to many an official less a plea than a strategem...
...week to exterminate my enemies. Abdul Kadir Bey, one time Governor of Angora, was hanged during the week for participating in a plot to assassinate me which I am thought to have trumped up. To date, 18 of my political enemies have been disposed of by hanging through this strategem (TIME, Sept...