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...Next day we brought the dead down through the soft snow to an island of rock emerging from the sea of ice and surrounded by an incomparable mountain circus. There we buried them today, not trying to hide our tears, and joined all our forces to build a tomb worthy of the man who gave his life for a great cause...
Before Fall started for Santa Fe, President Hoover received a petition for his pardon signed by every member of the New Mexico Legislature, Senators Cutting and Bratton and Governor Seligman. In view of the President's denunciation of public betrayers when he dedicated the Harding tomb last month, it was not considered likely that he would be clement...
...Harding tomb in Marion spectators seemed far more interested in Calvin Coolidge than in President Hoover. They so pressed about him that he could not reach his own car and had to be driven away in a commandeered machine. Springfield was the most cordial to the President but even there there was no "whooping-it-up-for-Hoover," no lusty demonstrations, no hat-tossing. Careful planning by the Hoover bodyguard averted all unfriendly exhibitions throughout the trip. At Springfield 350 "hunger marchers" who planned to demonstrate before the President were kept off-stage under virtual arrest by the local police...
...more. Conceived by the Emperor Napoleon, the Legion of Honor is French honor incarnate?and to the Latin honor is all. As a supreme honor to Emperor Napoleon the original Grand Collar reposes in his tomb. The President of France wears only a duplicate. Man can do no more...
...Governor Pinchot's outburst as an opening sound off for the Republican nomination against President Hoover. Recalled was their long personal antagonism which culminated fortnight ago when President Hoover spoke alone at Valley Forge while Governor Pinchot was memorializing his old idol Theodore Roosevelt at his Oyster Bay tomb. While nobody seriously expected Mr. Pinchot to muster 10% of the delegates to the national convention, he became an anti-Hoover symbol around whom disgruntled Republicans could rally. Last week Nebraska's glum old Senator Norris remarked : "Pinchot would make an excellent...