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...Meeting House of the Society of Friends in the capital, and there Mr. & Mrs. Hoover attend service. Its capacity is about 200 people, and the Friends were wondering how best to stretch the walls. With or without circulars to the scientifically minded, they foresaw that crowds would throng to their door each "First Day" of the next four years, when President & First Lady attend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Quaker Revival | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...meticulous exactitude Socialist Scheidemann writes that he was eating a bowl of "thin 1918 soup" in the Reichstag Restaurant when members of his party plunged in, grabbed him by the arm, and declared that he must appear on a balcony of the Reichstag to address a large, incipiently revolutionary throng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Accidentally a Republic | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...remained, or became, as the case may be, a Republican. And he went to Boston in his old clothes and several busses, and down the streets which know him, perhaps, in the soberer black and white of evening, dress he flung roses and other things riotously with the throng to the greater glory of a Presidential candidate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIG PARADE | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

...Cambridge orators had taken up their stand Tuesday evening opposite Mechanic's Hall in Worcester where a Hoover rally was being concluded. As the throng of Hooverites filed out of the building shortly after the Harvard men had swung into action, the praises of Smith fell upon their ears discordantly. Believing if the most effective method of silencing their antagonists the Republicans began to shout loudly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Brown Derby Orators Form Focal Point of Street Riot in Worcester-Saved From Hooverites by Blue-coat Squad | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...November 23 and take part in the concert to be given there the night before the Harvard Yale game. Thirty-five musicians of the Clubs will make the trip, and join with the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs in presenting an extensive musical and vocal program to the footbal throng...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 35 INSTRUMENTAL MEN TO VISIT YALE | 10/19/1928 | See Source »

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