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Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia clutched the rostrum of the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church and begged Evangelist "Billy" Sunday to conduct "a great campaign in this city as an antidote to the bootlegger, hijacker and gunman." Mr. Sunday, responding, said the proposition was attractive...
...responsible, if not for starting it, then for not stopping it. New York City's glib and artful Mayor Walker last week suggested that the Republican-run Post Office Department was deliberately lax about letting "scurrilous slanderous" matter from "fanatical bigots" pass through the mails.* The arch-Democratic New York World reprinted bits from a widely-distributed pamphlet which said...
...arch-Democratic New York World-perhaps as a matter of interest, perhaps as a sly play upon the superstitions of its readers -said: "Acceptance of the Frothingham residence as campaign headquarters was made on the same day that word was received that Mr. Frothingham had died suddenly on his yacht while cruising off the coast of Maine...
...reporter for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune spied the Roosevelts and, in his copy that night, he wrote: "His [Mr. Roosevelt's] infirmity made it impossible for him to battle the crowd for a place in the Assembly Chamber." The Herald Tribune headlined: "Nominator, Crippled, Is Unable to Fight Crowds to Get Inside...
...meeting of the School Board, J. Lewis Coath, its former president and the arch-enemy of William McAndrew, unexpectedly argued against the new textbooks. Soon voted down, he later confessed that his resistance had been due to a desire to "hang up a record." Out of Chicago schools were ruled: Modern History, by Hayes and Moon; Founders of Freedom in America, by Corson and Cornish; History of the American People, by Mc-Laughlin; Story of Our Country, by West & West; School History of the United States, by Hart; and An American History, by Muzzey. One other chronicle which had been...