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There is something distinctly elevating to be found in such a situation. The importance of football as a game is not minimized. Neither is the keenness of the rivalry destroyed. Yet after it is all over, there remain two universities, bounded by the common bond of education and the cause of enlightenment...
...support of colleagues in both parties for a Missouri Plan of flood control. This plan provided for: a) five commissioners appointed by the President to govern flood control, navigation and conservation in the Mississippi Basin; b) appropriations of $100,000,000 per annum for ten years; c) a bond issue, such as built the Panama Canal and the Alaska Railway...
...first Monday in November. To the polling places went civic-minded citizens. It was an off-year election, mostly of mayors, sheriffs and other large frogs in small puddles. Two States, however, elected new Governors. Three elected U. S. Representatives. Here and there were statewide issues- constitutional amendments, laws, bond issues. From such results, political pundits made halfhearted attempts to draw large deductions. These deductions had to be colored highly by partisanship to become visible. G. O. Pundits said in effect: "The elections of three Republican U. S. Representatives, of many a Republican mayor, and, in Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...York voted heavily against amending its constitution to give its Governor a four-year term with elections in presidential years. Governor Smith led the Democratic fight against this amendment.*. . . Republicans gained four Assembly seats. . . . Democrats pushed through a $300,000,000 state bond issue for building Manhattan subways. . . . Republican mayors replaced Democratic in Buffalo, Schenectady, Little Falls, Rome. . . . Democratic mayors replaced Republicans in Auburn and Troy. . . . Tammany Democrats swamped New York City...
...that the long peace that has existed between us is due to a treaty now nearly 110 years old for disarmament upon the Great Lakes. That peace is due not to the treaty but to the spirit that led to the treaty; it is due not to a formal bond of agreement but to the closer bonds of friendship...