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...manage his campaign President Hoover picked large, chunky, slow-minded Everett Sanders, onetime Coolidge secretary, whom the National Committee obediently elected as its chairman. "This high honor has come to me unsought," Chairman Sanders told the committee in a low, tired voice. "But it's as welcome as the flowers of May [Cries of "Louder."] The reason I didn't speak louder was that what's in my heart almost chokes my words. . . . We're going...
...child unsought, unknown...
...young ladies whose romantic imaginations have been stirred by the ambulant and temporary borrower of my name can relieve themselves of present mystifications and suspense, and relieve me of the embarrassment of unsought affections, by turning to Who's Who, which faithfully and accurately records that I am already provided with an adequate wife, as well as a family and will be 57 years old on the loth of this month...
...CRIMSON has already tried to analyze the local failure of the non-scouting plan: Information which although unsought is nevertheless difficult toward off, daily reports from metropolitan sports writers, unfounded but disturbing rumors--these are the dangers faced by Harvard when it enters into a non-scouting entente. True. Yale faces them, too--that is, with the exception of the daily battery of omniscient newspaper men and their--tell-tale cameras. But, as the News admits, "in Boston it looks different". Harvard, realizing that the situation not-only looks but is different, has very wisely decided not to enter...
...subscriber to your publication for two or three years past, I feel entitled to offer some criticism. Your repeated references to an unfortunate lynching which occurred here during the early hours of Oct. 8 has given this community quite as much unfavorable and unsought publicity as necessary. Why not review some past racial affair in East St. Louis, Chicago, Washington and an Ohio city? They are all closer to your office than Aiken. That we are civilized is best attested by the considerable number of America's best families who for more than 50 years have been spending their winter...