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...charge of beating to death a Negro gasoline station attendant for keeping him waiting overlong. Seventeen times before Harry Strauss had been arrested on such charges as homicide, carrying a revolver, larceny, assault, possessing narcotics and seventeen times before the New York police had been unable to tag him with a court conviction. To 200 assembled detectives Commissioner Valentine repeated his command...
...result of an interesting discovery yesterday, the suspicion that Colonel Apted had more than met his match flashed through the undergraduate body. A parking tag, of the variety that roads "This vehicle is parked in violation of the University rules. If not removed immediately it will be towed away and stored at the owner's expense. Please see Colonel Apted in Lehman Hall at once," was found attached to the steamroller now rusting above Kirkland House...
...teacher of law at Columbia until Calvin Coolidge called him to Washington to be Attorney General and clean up the Department of Justice after the Ohio Gang. In 1925 he was advanced to the Supreme Court where "Holmes, Brandeis & Stone dissenting" from conservative majority opinion became a familiar news tag...
...life La Follette I was elected to Congress as a Republican. Jealously he guarded that party tag for it carried preferment in the committees of the U. S. Senate. Twice, however, he tried-and failed-to become a Progressive. In 1912, capitalizing on the fact that he was Wisconsin's hero, he angled for a Progressive nomination for the Presidency, to run against William Howard Taft. Naively he invited Teddy Roosevelt to back him. One evening in an overwrought condition he addressed a newspaper publishers' banquet in Philadelphia. He began by abusing the privileged classes, went...
Thirdly, the name Republican and Democrat proves itself to be nothing more than a tag. Neither the winning nor the dying group stand for their basic principles any longer with the result that there will probably be a realignment of parties, even if under the same name. Internal dissension in Democratic ranks should gradually make way for a new division such as conservatives and liberals. Fourthly and most important is the realization that the New Deal will proceed to its logical conclusion, with reactionary and Tory Republicans unable to impede its course...