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...Coolidge. A report from Washington that President Coolidge had decided to run again, sent the New York stock market zooming aloft. Polite amazement was professed at the White House, but no statement came forth, con or pro. Observers judged that amazement of another sort was felt privately at the White House when Mayor Thompson's "Coolidge-anyway" movement in Chicago came out last week with a platform which included the plank: "Repeal the Volstead...
...last week. They were going to a horse race. At a rut in the road, the car lurched violently. Safe as mutton sat 300-lb. Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe of New Orleans. Startled into silence, 250-lb. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago shot aloft, collided with the top, came down with nose and lip cut and bleeding. Next day the Young Men's Republican Club of New Orleans adopted a resolution which would have salved worse wounds: ". . . We believe that by the time the Republican Convention is at hand the leaders of the party...
Most spectacular of the smashing, thundering, rumbling, banging, whizzing, screeching demonstrations was the night sniping by a battery of automatically-aimed 3-inch "archies" at 27-foot sock-shaped targets towed 1,200 yards behind bombing planes more than two miles aloft. Giant searchlights picked out the "socks". Machine gun tracer bullets streaked aloft. White flowers with angry red centres blossomed abruptly and faded where shrapnel burst in the sky. A direct hit of the last target's towline ended the show. Experts pronounced the anti-aircraft marksmanship the best yet achieved...
...Butler at their head, would have the text modified, but as contributors of one-sixth the total sum, they have no controlling vote. Germany has remained silent, having in mind perhaps the ineffectuality of her, unofficial protest against the war memorial at Dinant, which depicts a German soldier holding aloft on his bayonet the body of a Belgian baby...
...fame, one downwards, the other up, each to remain in the public memory as long as is customary for fallen idols: for, to assume the pessimistic attitude and to predict the inevitable, each will be a fallen idol in a surprisingly short time, and he whose arm extended aloft in the calcium glare last night is destined to as deep an obliviou as he who failed to heed the final count. But such philosophy and pessimism is dealing in futurities by four hours, for if the comedy is postponed on account of rain, obituaries, and paeons, including editorials, will...