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...people realize that Yale's touchdown was due almost entirely to his brilliant playing. It was not spectacular in that there were no length of the field runs but when one player can hit a line as heavy as Georgia's, carrying the ball himself in eleven out of thirteen plays, and in those plays, bringing the pigskin from one end of the field to the other, so that on the thirteenth play his teammate takes the ball over for the only score--then you can be sure that that player is a good back. That is what Eddie Cottle...
...when he pronounced those immortal words and it is a safe rule by which to judge our own legislators in our National Congress. That body consists of 531 of the leaders of 48 states and 435 Congressional districts. They are the chosen men of the hundred and thirteen millions of our people. Their conscience is as good as that of any of their critics. Their means of acquiring information on public questions is greater than that of any of their critics. Their moral purpose is the moral purpose of their respective Congressional and Senatorial districts or States. They constitute...
...tale. Again, one man, one individual has nullified the deliberately expressed will of 50,000 voters who had written a virtually new chapter in American political initiative in meeting the extraordinary requirements of the California electoral law. In one day, each of these 50,000 persons affixed his signature thirteen times to the petition to place Independent Progressive electors on the ballot. This action of the electorate one judge out of seven how declares null and void. Fortunately, while the will of the people has been thwarted, there is a way out for them. They can still register their support...
...Said Webster on July 4, 1851: "Before us is the broad and beautiful river, separating two of the original Thirteen States, which a late President, a man of determined purpose and inflexible will but patriotic heart, desired to span with arches of ever-enduring granite, symbolical of the firmly established union of the North and the South. That President was General Jackson...
...West Point Army Band, accompanied by the penetrating soprano voice of Nannette Guilford, delivered the National Anthem. Margaret Anglin, tragedienne, gave a dramatic reading. Frederick A. Wallis, Commissioner of Correction, made a speech on "spiritual tendencies." A battery of "seventy-fives" roared a salute of thirteen guns. One of the gunners caught his hand in a breechblock. A physician had to be called...