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...where the convention was held, wrought one of those changes which no man could have planned yet which might have been brought off by any man possessed of native intelligence, self-respect and courage. Alfred Emanuel Smith had learned to despise William Randolph Hearst. In 1919, after Smith had striven to better New York City's milk supply and been balked by a Republican legislature, Hearst's press had viciously accused Smith of being in league with the milk trust, of starving New York's babies. Smith had answered, defied, publicly tongue-lashed Hearst, with Irish violence...
...have put emphasis on the Flag, because the Flag is loyalty, and loyalty is the Flag, one and inseparable. Wherever the Flag is, there is our love of country, the concrete symbol of all our hopes, all that is best in us, what we have striven for on countless battle fields, in the Spanish-American War, for instance, and the War of 1812. When we lift our hands for the pledge and solemnly repeat: "I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the country for which it stands, one and indivisible, with liberty and justice...
Governor McCray replies: "Ed, I am amazed that you should make that kind of an offer to me. You evidently don't know me. It begins to look like I've lost my fortune that I've striven for for 35 years. My office is threatened, it looks as if they are threatening my liberty, but I'm not going to lose my self respect...
...leading citizens to the capacious roof garden of its Hotel Gibson last week to dine with George Dent Crabbs and to laud him with all their might for persuading the railroads to build a $40,000,000 freight terminal and a $35,000,000 union station. Other Cincinnatians had striven towards the same ends since 1899. Mr. Crabbs, president of the Cincinnati Railroad Terminal Development Co., after only four years of wise, eloquent persuasion, succeeded...
...Austen, we convey this volume in full recognition of and gratitude for your constant understanding of our people and the friendship you have striven to develop...