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...Willis that Hoover has spoiled the unanimity of the Ohio delegates, whose unfaltering adherence to Willis might have gone down into history with Alabama's famous 39 votes for Underwood. Senator Willis is the only one to raise his voice against an opponent who holds favorite-son tradition in contempt; whatever the other planks in his platform, he is at least a gentleman of the old school, a lone surviving guardian of courteous politics. Even if, bravely fighting, he should go down, Herber Hoover has still to meet the national convention. In Kansas City, then, where in her curved palm...
Apologies ensued. But still Col. Stewart would not remember whether he had heard how Sinclair paid Secretary Fall from Continental profits, as alleged. The Committee reported Col. Stewart's reluctance, technically known as "contempt," to the Senate...
...Brother Benito announced the incorporation of the Fascist Militia as an "independent unit" in the Italian Army, declaring at a Fascist rally in Rome: "I am sure the Fascist legions fully deserve this honor. . . . They must become our shock troops-daggers between teeth, grenades in hand and supreme contempt of danger at heart." Those who thought this sounded like the incorporation of a band of autonomous brigands in the Italian army were not reassured when Il Duce concluded...
...arrived for a four day stay during which time he delivered a series of three excellent lectures, and the CRIMSON doesn't know it yet! Wake up, old fossil, and become aware of the world about you, or else sink further into narrowness and ignorance and the well-earned contempt of the University!! Yours truly, Engene W. Pike...
...Senator Borah, whose vote had been for seating Mr. Smith, out of respect to Illinois, then ousting Mr. Smith to punish political simony. After Mr. Smith, the Committee listened to a long-awaited explanation by Samuel Insull, potentate of gas, light and politics in Chicago. Mr. Insull, held in contempt of the Senate last year for refusing to tell who received $40,000 of the $237,925 he passed out for the 1926 primary campaign, testified that the $40,000 had gone equally to two local campaigners in Cook County, not to Frank L. Smith. Asked why he subsidized politics...