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...career" diplomats whom President Coolidge raised to the rank of Minister had tentatively agreed among themselves not to resign on March 4, no matter who is elected President. Secretary of State Kellogg refused to believe the report, but it came to the attention of President Coolidge. It seemed like stubborn insubordination to President Coolidge. He labeled it unconstitutional, an attempt of the "career" diplomats to make themselves a self-perpetuating group. He pointed out that the next President is privileged to appoint new diplomats even if the old diplomats do not resign...
Among the other collections of an infancy spent in a very politically-minded family, the Vagabond recalls distinctly one occasion some presidential campaigns ago when his father, growing irate against a stubborn uncle, overwhelmed the claims of the latter for his candidate with the words "But he doesn't respect the Constitution!" Between his wanderings from lecture hall to lecture hall the Vagabond has picked up enough knowledge about the current campaign to assure him that there is still no more destructive charge Same of the factors that influenced the birth of this criterion of Americanism will be discussed...
Your correspondent, L. F. Southwick of Connecticut, admits he is prejudiced against Governor Smith because the stubborn stamp of his upbringing on "the sidewalks of New York" makes him say "poisonal," "detoimined." And in his Omaha speech I heard plainly on the radio, "foist," "raddio." A man's a man for a' that...
...Rhodes scholarship. At 27, as president of Kentucky Wesleyan College, he selected chairs for greybeards. In Florida, he will manipulate a university, adequately supported by the state, including schools as diversified as journalism and pharmacy. He is young enough to mingle with undergraduates, old enough to be a stubborn organizer...
...University baseball team wound up its preliminary season by downing a stubborn Tufts nine 5 to 4 at Medford on Saturday...