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...sinister. The machinery which he built for Bryan he deliberately used later to carry himself toward the White House where he felt, doubtless sincerely, his "new journalism" could best serve The People. The measures he introduced in Congress (1903-07) were truly liberal in conception, but despite his lavish torchlit campaigns for Mayor, Governor and President, his motives were never sufficiently trusted by The People ("Who Think"). Perhaps, eloquent though he became on the stump, he was too mental for them, too synthetic. It was a simpler, earthier politician than T. R. who drove Hearst out of politics-Al Smith...
Through the torchlit streets of Providence, R. I. one night last week parading G. O. Partisans carried placards with such slogans, mocking Theodore Francis Green, 65, lawyer, banker, scholar, Fellow of Brown University and Democratic nominee for Governor. When Mr. Green was picked to oppose Governor Norman Stanley Case for reelection, Republicans softly whispered that he was effeminate. Democrat Green's retort took the form of a full-page advertisement in the rotogravure section of the dignified Providence Journal. In a dozen different poses he was depicted as the "All-round Man"-lawyer, statesman, soldier, traveler, tennis player, public...
...TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). As Wartime wage umpire of the National Labor Board, President Suzzallo had sponsored the eight-hour day for lumbermen, a policy irksome to timber-owning Governor Hartley. Technical cause for the rift was a disagreement about educational policy, but President Suzzallo left Washington in a torchlit blaze of personal glory. Last week he was given as distinguished an educational post as the nation affords: the presidency of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in which he succeeded Henry Smith Pritchett, 73, co-founder and president of the Foundation since its inception 25 years...
...bygone day, a slogan contest would have seemed as absurd as the idea of women voting. Fancy a dame of 1840 penning a note to a Mrs. Hubbard of Chesterton, Md.: "We have received your nice slogan and it wins the prize." In 1840, men were shouting in the torchlit streets: "Fifty-four-forty or fight!" In 1856, Republicans punned: "Free soil, free speech, free men and Fremont." A resounding, if somewhat vague, slogan was Theodore Roosevelt's cry in 1912: "We stand at Armageddon and fight for the Lord." This was far less successful than the gluttonous Republican...