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...figure descended all the old righteous rage of the East against the Latter-day Saints. Christian pastors bellowed for his expulsion from the Senate. The ancient horrors of polygamy were dragged out and paraded before the world?despite the fact that polygamy had long since ceased to be a tenet of Mormonism. Humble and meek to a fault, Senator Smoot hung on against this two-year gale of religious disapproval, worked, waited, prayed. At the feet of Aldrich and Penrose and Lodge he became an apt pupil. His ascent to power in the Senate was steady and unspectacular. When North...
...Every tenet of the Spanish code of honor was carefully observed, last week, by Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera as, with practiced hand, he suppressed?or seemed to suppress?another of Spain's semi-annual revolutions...
...This tenet of the Coolidge credo was reiterated by the President at last week's semi-annual business meeting of the government in Washington. It was the dominant note in an address devoted to the eight years of budget system history. Those years have seen the public debt reduced from $24,000,000,000 to $17,000,000,000. Big business, an invalid in 1921, has revived. Unemployment has been lessened, economic confidence restored...
Decentralization is a prime tenet of the Hoover theory of administration-dividing the work into parts and making one person responsible for each part. He would rather appoint a director of this and a director of that and let them choose assistants than entrust this-and-that in one lump to a commission. Radio is an example. Last week radiowners throughout the U. S. made out new dialing charts as a result of the Federal Radio Commission's reassignment of station wavelengths. Perhaps the new charts will serve for some time, perhaps they will need changing again before Christmas...
...business. Because the country is faced with difficulty and doubt over certain national problems - that is,« prohibition, farm relief and elec trical power - our opponents propose that we must thrust government a long way into the businesses which give rise to these problems. In effect they abandon the tenets of their own party and turn to State socialism. . . . We are confronted with a huge program of government in business . . . based on principles de structive of its [the "American system's"] very foundations." The three Smith proposals to which Nominee Hoover referred were in essence as follows: 1) Liquor...