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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas B. Love, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas, who said: "As between chronic corruption and acute corruption, I prefer the acute. I want strongly to turn the rascals out, but I am just as strongly opposed to turning Tammany Hall in. I intend definitely to vote against Smith. ... As long as I live I am going to stay in the Democratic party...
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia and Governor Dan Moody of Texas refused to bolt the party because of what the nomi nee had said. Their attitude was, in effect: "We need and want Smith for many reasons. We can keep him in hand on this Prohibition matter, which is only one of many matters to be considered by the Democracy...
...will be a limited class of voters to whom it will occur that, while an individual vote is infinitesimal in deciding the outcome, still an individual vote is interesting to cast. Many a voter in this class will plan, this summer, to do some political-historical reading. He will want books that are general and complete rather than specialized treatises on a few eras, issues...
...continued, Inspector Collins was caught in one palpable lie, and appeared to arouse little credulity for certain of his statements. When some 2,000 pages of testimony had been taken from numerous witnesses, the case of Scotland Yard was summed by Sir Henry Honywood Curtis-Bennett: "I do not want it supposed that the police have done anything of which they are ashamed. ... If you impute bad faith to these officers of Scotland Yard, everything becomes possible. But if you assume that there are at Scotland Yard certain traditions of honor not likely to be broken, then other matters become...
...want to say she was guilty? Was she there to volunteer to these officers that she was a bad girl? Can you believe...