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...dark house, rambling across the top of a windy hill in Cleveland Park, Washington, D. C., was once the home of Grover Cleveland. Here he repaired in hot weather. The rooms, swept by a fresh continual draft, were filled with the rustle of stiff conversation and stiffer silks; the approaches were guarded, then as now, by large iron dogs. Now Red Top is filled with the rhythmic music of carpenters' hammers; Red Top is being torn down to make room for a modern house, one not infested with reminders of stuffy and strenuous gaiety, hushed talk Coxey...
...stronger effect: Calvin Coolidge would be wanted again and he would have to respond. The President's closest political friend of all, Chairman William M. Butler of the Republican National Committee, steadfastly refused to be convinced that all was said and done. New Jersey Republicans actually formed a Coolidge Draft Club, sayng: "We draft soldiers in time of war; why should we not draft public officials in time of peace...
...days passed, less was heard about draft, more about miscellaneous candidacies. Thus, U. S. Senator Frederick H. Gillette, a Republican, of the inner Massachusetts set, pointed to Charles Evans Hughes as his first choice, to Herbert Hoover as his second...
...Draft or no draft, Republicans felt that the President's announcement would greatly aid the party in resolving a major situation which an Iowa newspaper described as follows: "The Republican East is in the saddle and the Republican West is in arms...
That was complot, cried Judge Rutherford. The "regular" churches were seeking to destroy his sect. In 1918 they had him sent to Atlanta Penitentiary for obstructing the War draft. But the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, after he had spent eight months in jail, had ordered him released. The present exclusion from the air was another "frame-up." Mr. Aylesworth was in cahoots with the preachers...