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Lazardo Cardenas, 39, is a Tarascan Indian from the southwest State of Michoacan. He left Michoacan's Governorship to help Boss Calles suppress the 1929 Escobar revolt. He took charge of the Government's troops in the State of Sonora, made a name as an efficient, hard-driving officer. In 1930 when onetime President Fortes Gil tried to make the National Revolutionary Party his personal machine, Cardenas was politically smart in lining up with Calles, was appointed Party president. He was one of four cabinet members to resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity...
...Senate he wears frock coats and high wing collars, declaims his speeches, mixes his metaphors and keeps both ears to the Virginia ground simultaneously. Attacks of indigestion sometimes cause him to faint. His secretary tries to suppress publication of such incidents. A Swanson fainting spell that got into print once cost the Senator some $25,000 in additional campaign expenses to convince his constituents he was not an invalid. Admirals expect him to give them a free hand running the Navy...
...Government holds a monopoly on making legal tender. But up to last week the Department of Justice had made no move to suppress local home-made money, regarding scrip as not being legal tender since no one is obliged to accept...
Never a gusher, Citizen Coolidge praised President Hoover with studied restraint. His review of the Hoover record was fair and logical. Because Republicans have conspired to suppress it, the name Roosevelt was not once mentioned. Gales of cheers and laughter swept the Garden as Mr. Coolidge referred briefly to his past service,"When I was in Washington. . . ."He called the Republican party "the most efficient instrument for sound popular government ever entrusted with the guidance of a great nation." He deprecated the idea of Change for Change's sake. He referred to Democrat Grover Cleveland as "a wise statesman...
...received the recognition he deserves from the literary critics. However, I have given no proofs to substantiate my argument of Twain's importance, but have based it entirely upon fact. Being fundamentally opposed to all flat literary questions which are absolutely personal, I have also endeavored to suppress the man's personality...