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...Andrew Jackson fastened to the Democratic party a rule requiring a two-thirds vote to nominate. Its purpose was to give moral substance and worth to the nomination. Every subsequent party convention has used the same rule. A thing of sentiment and tradition, it cost Champ Clarke the nomination in 1912, deadlocked the 1924 Madison Square Garden meeting for 17 days. Last week on the eve of the Chicago convention Roosevelt supporters announced their intention to abrogate the two-thirds rule, nominate their man by a simple majority. This rule change could be effected by a majority vote...
...have not produced 30 pictures of 'high moral tone and alive with romance, adventure and historical worth." Herewith a list of 24 which might do for a school-age camp: Cimarron, Rango, City Lights, Trader Horn, Skippy, A Connecticut Yankee, Chances, The Viking Spirit of Notre Dame, The Champ, Forbidden Adventure, Huckleberry Finn, Penrod and Sam Devotion, Pardon Us, Touchdown, The Man Who Played God, Around the World in 80 Minutes, Lovers Courageous, Alter Tomorrow, Sooky, Hell Divers, Young America, Destry Rides Again...
...Speaker (1925-31) Nicholas Longworth descended the rostrum to address the House from the floor five times on such subjects as the Soldier Bonus, a Big Navy and the "Lame Duck" Amendment. Frederick Huntington Gillett (1919-25) spoke five times. During the eight years of his Speakership (1911-19) Champ Clark took the floor 18 times for regular debate and 45 times when the House was in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. His speeches produced much applause with members rising to their feet. Joseph Gurney Cannon (1903-11) spoke four times on the floor...
...bookish man. His library of some 5,000 volumes is a precious possession. His reading is deep, wide, mostly classical. Many a visitor leaves him with a sense of astonishment at his erudition, his ability to quote and date and cite. Constitutional government is his specialty. The late great Champ Clark, observing him in the House, called him one of the greatest constitutional experts and parliamentarians ever to sit in Congress...
...stencilled plot of The Champ might not have tempted many of Hollywood's directors, but it was rich to the taste of Director King Vidor. Far from being ashamed of such an unblushing tearjerker, he laid on pathos with a steam-shovel. Big, ugly, shambling Beery did likewise and little Cooper, whose salary for such undertakings is $1,500 a week, gave a thoroughgoing performance in the same key. Utterly false and thoroughly convincing, The Champ is a monument to the cinema's skill in achieving second-rate perfection. Good shots: Beery dressing when he has a horrible...