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...Indiana's small-eyed James E. Watson, chairman of the redoubtable Committee on Committees, whose claims to leadership will be that he was Republican Whip (assistant leader) under the Lodge regime and that he is undoubtedly one of the most knowing politicians in the business. He can explain his opposition to the Hoover nomination by referring his fellow Senators to the presidential spark burning in all their humble breasts. Senator Watson was mentioned as a possible successor to Leader Curtis and a very likely candidate for President Pro Tern...
Reasons. Politics is the art of speaking convincingly on selected topics. The reasons they advanced why Hoover should be elected were the reasons Republicans stressed, in public, to explain why he was elected. Democrats to the contrary notwithstanding (see p. 24), the Republican explanations were...
...laboratory's secrecy, showed them a sheet of aluminum-like metal on the floor, held a similar piece in the air above the other, removed his hands. The upper piece remained poised in the air. Obviously gravity was being foiled. But how, the young man would not explain...
...later, the U. S. granted the Carson patents. But the Desert Rat, discouraged, had little hope of selling them to the big companies. One night in 1915, he sat in a Manhattan auditorium, listening to the papers read to the American Society of Mining Engineers. One speaker started to explain a new copper reduction process, already in operation in the West. The Desert Rat rose in his seat eyes blazing. He was listening to a description of his own furnace...
This autumn the Harvard Fund begins its fourth year of activity, and in view of its annually increasing importance to the College and the Graduate Schools, it is perhaps advisable to explain for the benefit of those members of the University who know nothing about it something of its origin and purpose. The Fund was founded late in 1925 by a group of Alumni who felt that the graduate body should have an organization through which a man might contribute each year to the University a small or large amount of money, according to his individual means, entirely for unrestricted...