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...President's office, issuing his statement to the press, posing for photographers, Senator Capper was not an impressive figure. Nevertheless his words started a visible commotion in the grain world. Next day, the mild vagueness of President Hoover's message to Congress on farm relief heightened the unrest. Wheat prices dropped 4? per bushel...
...voice. When the various boards of the church were reorganized in 1922 several women were given important positions but outside of their own individual organizations their advice and votes were not requested. So great was feminine indignation that three years later the General Assembly took notice of "general unrest" among women, appointed a committee (of men) to investigate this and other problems. The culmination of the rights-for-Presbyterian-women movement came last week at the General Council in Philadelphia. Twelve men voted for the women's emancipation, six voted against it. In St. Paul, Minn., next...
Quaking, Trembling. Only a few years before the religious maidens landed at Boston, when England was in a state of great religious unrest, the Society of Friends came into being under the leadership of George Fox (1624-91), an itinerant preacher whose personal habits approached those of a latter-day John the Baptist. Once he walked barefoot through the streets on market day crying, "Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield...
...principal cause of our political unrest during the last seventeen years has been the struggle among individuals. Our so-called leaders have fought against each other for selfish ends. Hereafter all should work together...
...There are 18 electoral votes in Missouri. The usual complexion of the State is: Republican in and about wet, German-populated St. Louis; Democratic in the dry, farming western reaches. This year, the wet German-Americans, led by oldtime-brewer August Adolph Busch, have inclined sharply to Smith. Farm unrest impeded a compensating swing to Hoover in the west. To St. Joseph, on the extreme western edge of Missouri, went Campaigner Hughes to praise the Hoover record, to admit that "the Republican Party was betrayed in its own house" (the Oil Scandals) but to protest that "there is no issue...