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These things should lie discussed at party meetings. A party which did so openly and wisely would discover a new and living interest in the electroate, for then politics would be dealing once more with matters about which everyone wants to know and which deeply affect everyone's life...
...This is a critical time in the history of the Progressive movement. Progressives in the United States Senate are few in number, but they are vested with great responsibility and power. I need not suggest how vitally the choice of Mr. LaFollette's successor may affect the cause...
...That the Secretaries of the Navy do not create naval bases; 2) that Congress, having authorized the expenditure of $10,000,000 to build the Lakehurst hangars, may be reluctant to spend as much more to build new ones in San Diego; 3) that things other than weather affect the location of airports; if dirigibles have a military value, they are needed in the financial East-a district which would be a conspicuous enemy objective in wartime; 4) that good weather and war do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. If the dirigibles...
...than 5¾," while a base ball must weigh "not less than 5 oz. nor more than 5¼." In circumference, the balls are the same. The utmost possible difference of ¼, to ½ oz. in weight should not, I am reasonably sure-, at any rate not 39 ft. affect and over. Probably, with a cricket ball, slightly heavier yet with no more atmosphere resistance, I might have thrown even farther. Field day exercises were held on the old state fair grounds, now Camp Randall, the throw down the level racetrack, on a day devoid of wind, in the presance...
...industry and to the railways. The miners threatened the country with a general strike beginning Aug. 1, but probably this was no more than a threat for the purposes of maneuver. The railwaymen discussed a proposal for an "all round" reduction in wages and salaries of 5%, designed to affect laborers and officials...