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...bides on his Sinnissippi Farm at Oregon, Ill., refusing to be called from the plow until the psychopolitical moment. With much honk and ceremony, a large motorcade of his admirers drew up at Sinnissippi last month. Mr. Lowden had known in advance that they were coming, but when he strode out on the porch in riding boots, his greeting to them was an indefinite gesture. Instead of a destination, he gave them a detour, and went back to hug his hearth until some winter freeze-up might crystallize his plans...
...Prime Minister on the following morning walked into the reading room in the press gallery, there to hold a conference with the Parliamentary reporters. As he strode into the room he was greeted with a good-natured yell: "We want Cunliffe-Lister!" Smiling, Mr. Baldwin returned the chaff: "I am glad to have a chance of meeting people who really make and unmake men and Governments. I present myself with some trepidation before you. I think it is extraordinarily kind of you to care to have me among you at this moment, when a vote of censure is overhanging...
Policeman David A. Fay, who attends the college night school in full uniform, heard students discussing military training. He unbuttoned his heavy coat, flaunted his service pistol strode to the platform and shouted: "Now I'm opposed to military training. But you don't see me getting expelled. i tell you Dr. Robinson wouldn't expel anyone for expressing an opinion against this training. It must have been because of these fellows were impolite. They didn't say it in the right way." Several students applauded...
After calling on President Coolidge (see p. 7), Mayor Thompson strode into the caucus room of the House office building, where the Flood Control Committee waited. Representative Reid seemed impressed by his fellow Illinoisian and introduced him to the committee as "the man who knows more about the Mississippi Flood than any other man." (Cheers.) "No man has done more for flood control than William Hale Thompson," said Chairman Reid. (More cheers...
...York Daily Mirror, declared by some to be William Randolph Hearst's pet property of all his newspapers, will be edited from now on by Victor F. Watson. Mr. Watson sits at the desk left vacant when Philip A. Payne strode confidently from the Mirror shop to the tiny cabin of Old Glory to ride to Rome and write the story for the Mirror. The airplane dived into the Atlantic; and the greatest of tabloid editors died on assignment (TIME, Sept...