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...White House until 1895. The Bryan nomination of 1896 turned Mr. O'Brien Republican. A journalist for 34 years, he was Washington correspondent for the Boston Transcript, then its editor and later, until his retirement in 1928, editor & publisher of the Boston Herald. With the enthusiasm of a convert, he can be counted on by the G.0.P. to keep all tariff rates as high as possible...
...France two French suffragets tried to convert Daughter Jose, argued that if French women are given the vote they can be depended on to always vote for peace. "French women are impulsive," retorted anti-Feminist Jose, "they could vote for war as well as peace. Many would vote contrary to their husbands in a spirit of contradiction. I would prefer a dozen babies to a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...
...civic clubbers, and from over the room came a shower of cards bearing the same admonition: "KEEP SMILING." Keep smiling the delegates did through ever-accumulating evidence that even the service club industry must needs adjust itself to a reduced income. A speaker neatly manipulated chalk and eraser to convert DEPRESSION into PRESS ON; from others came vague assurances that business is upping, but in its final meeting the convention adopted a significant report recommending drastic economies in club operation, euphemistically referring to "this period of men tal and spiritual unrest." ROBERT L. HUTCHISON Joplin, Mo. Dirt-Doubers Sirs: Sapient...
Immediate Effects. London and New York received word of this great step with comparative calm. There were no bank runs, no rush to the stores to convert money in goods for hoarding. Bankers filled the papers with the sort of optimistic statements that doctors make to very sick patients...
Banker John Pierpont Morgan added to his Glen Cove (L. I.) estate by buying for $650,000 "Rattling Springs," the 65-acre estate of the late Percy Chubb, which adjoins that of his son. Junius. "Rattling Springs" includes a pond which Mr. Morgan may convert into a yacht basin...