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...teach Republicans anything about national politics. But from the last congressional campaign the G. O. P. learned from the Democracy two tricks: 1) having the national party organization function continuously, instead of just before a campaign; 2) employing a smart, persistent publicity man. To staunch the flow of crack anti-Republican propaganda which emanated from the office of Democratic Director of Publicity Charles Michelson, the Republicans hired James West from the Washington bureau of the Associated Press. Last week steps were taken to make the Republican campaign headquarters permanent and potent, like the organization built and operated by Jouett Shouse...
...made many a friend, none more loyal than his Reporter Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. Author Zona Gale worked for "C. C."; so did Barton Currie (later editor of Country Gentleman, Ladies' Home Journal, World's Work), Will Inglis (secretary to John D. Rockefeller), Lindsay Denison (still a crack staffman on the Evening World), and Ralph Pulitzer, now the World's publisher. Joseph Pulitzer Jr., now publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was fired by C. C. "for laziness...
...seepings from the flooded river Saone had turned the interior of Fourviere to a quaking pudding. Earl)' in the week engineers reported danger of landslides to city authorities. At 1:15 in the morning people living on the flank of Fourviere heard a noise ''like the crack of doom" felt the world slip out beneath them...
Since everyone is taking a crack at Coolidge, columnist cum laude, why not get real low-down and quote from Voltaire in his Candide...
...being a round flaying of the Republican administration. When the crowd booed his first mention of President Hoover, he waved them into silence with, "Don't let's take up the radio time." (He pronounced it "raydio," not "raddio" as he did in 1928.) A sample Smith crack of last week...