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Star Reporters. Following the Nominees far more boldly and self-assertively than the Straight Reporters, asking more questions, thinking up more ruses, consuming more paper and ink, are the special representatives of newspapers who can afford more than the standardized A. P. and U. P. reports. Typical of this class are cadaverous Ray Tucker, who boils around after Hoover for the New York Telegram; James O'Donnell Bennett, a quick-eared conversationalist, who watches Nominee Smith for the Chicago Tribune; and Edwin S. Macintosh, a Southern gentleman, who, representing the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, lately got photographed...
...sympathize because once he knew the life of active politics himself. In 1922 all was arranged for him to have the Senate seat which Maryland's bumbling Bruce now occupies. Pundit Kent turned it down but only, they say, because he felt he could not afford...
...expression of deep solicitude. He totally avoided "equalization fee." His promises: 1) "to search out the common ground"; 2) benefit of tariff; 3) waterways, principally Great Lakes to Atlantic; 4) Federal Farm Board with money to spend. ... "A nation which is spending ninety billions a year can well afford an expenditure of a few hundred millions for a workable program that will give to one-third of its population their fair share of the nation's prosperity. . . . The working out of agricultural relief constitutes the most important obligation of the next Administration...
Clown Will Rogers wrote: "I never met a public man in any country with as many laughs tucked away as he. After escaping assassination, while I was there he spent over $1,000 answering congratulatory telegrams on his escape. He said to me: 'I can't afford to be missed again. It's cheaper...
...Aquilon, last year's winner. The Hussar Duke urged his horse, stooping in his stirrups, but Jehu was tired. Aquilon finished first, Mr. Polly second, Jehu third. Bookmakers made money, but several of the Duke's friends, officers of the loth Hussars, lost more than they could afford...