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...President and Prosperity. When Mayor Walker of New York City visited the Hearst ranch after the Democratic convention, people said he went to make overtures; to persuade Mr. Hearst, if not actually to support Nominee Smith, at least to "lay off" him, to forget Nominee Smith's bitter contempt for him and to bury the old quarrel. Except for a series of cartoons, showing Tammany as a little yegg in a tiger-striped sweater, Mr. Hearst subsequently published nothing very damaging to the Brown Derby...
Chief Justice Taft replied that he had no jurisdiction to review the complaint. Attorney Serri, still undaunted, continued action with the slander suit, "as a test case ... to call the attention of the legal profession to the need of disciplinary power to punish judges for contempt of lawyers...
...Science of National Defense." This observers deduced from the fact that President Calvin Coolidge said last week, at Wausau, Wis. (See National Affairs): "We cherish no sentiment of aggression. . . . But . . . for the Government [of the U.S.] to disregard the science of national defense would expose it to the contempt of its citizens at home and of the world abroad. It would be an attempt to evade bearing our share of the burdens of civilization...
...Schurmacher, managing editor of The Candy Gazette. Editor Schurmacher wrote to the New York Times: "There has been a steady increase in the sale of penny candy (red hots, all-day suckers, 'lickerish' shoe laces). . . . If there is anybody who is offsetting the younger generation's contempt for the penny as a medium of exchange, it is the penny candy manufacturer...
Nominee Smith, as everyone knows, has repeatedly expressed his unmitigated contempt for Publisher Hearst ever since the latter's newspapers mendaciously blamed Smith for a bad milk situation in Manhattan. In 1922, Smith refused to lead his State ticket until Hearst was withdrawn as candidate for the U. S. Senate. In 1926, when Hearst supported Ogden L. Mills against Smith for the New York governorship, Smith characterized it as "the kiss of death" for Mills. Mills was badly beaten. This year, Hearst has signed editorials praising Hoover and sneering at Smith...