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...crisis has been needlessly and unwisely precipitated. . . . You cannot write on the banner of the Democratic party the skull and crossbones of an outlaw trade. . . . The only way the Republican party can hope for victory is to rely on the lack of wisdom of those who lead the Democratic party. . . . I repudiate the effort of the national chairman to submerge all other issues and bring most prominently to the front one about which he knows the Democrats entertain conflicting opinions. . . . This act was in bad taste . . . not calculated to promote harmony...
When Theodore Roosevelt visited Buenos Aires in 1913, 100,000 children (coached by the same ingenious method) sang in synthetic English "The Star Spangled Banner...
Calling upon kindred spirits in all nations to rally to the banner of "Futurist food," Signer Marinetti somewhat further defined this rather vague conception: "The whole world must wake up and invent Futurist lunches and dinners. We must begin with abolishing volume and weight in our food and we must get up a new Futurist mixture which will consist in mixing only the nutritious parts of the food according as scientists will have to discover. . . . The deliciousness of food must be 'immensified' so as to comprise a sensation of all the joys in the universe...
...three principal Soviet orders are: The Order of Lenin, The Order of the Red Banner, The Order of the Labor Red Banner. Holders of one or more decorations ride free on trolley cars everywhere in the Soviet Union. Two-medal men may ride from one end of the Union to the other and back twice a year. Heroes belonging to all three orders may use the rail and waterways of Soviet Russia free for any distance at any time. Agents of the Ogpu (Secret Police) also enjoy this privilege...
...faced young Governor with slicked-back hair was delivering his inaugural address inside the Capitol, a delegation of jobless assembled on the frozen lawn outside. Said Governor Olson: "An acute unemployment situation . . . duty of State to alleviate it . . . carrying on public works." The jobless silently retorted by unfurling a banner labeled: "The warehouses are full; we are empty." Afterwards Governor Olson received the delegation's leaders in his office, told them to "cut out the crap," received their memorial...