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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...your former jobs you always had a title and a diplomatic uniform of sorts, I cannot give you a title but I am sending you a uniform by express." Two days later Chairman Fletcher received a large box from A. G. Spalding & Bros, from which he extracted a football headguard, a catcher's mask, a chest protector, shin guards, a metal athletic supporter...
...only reason for that can be that at the bottom the public does not mind them, does not feel what they do is wrong. You cannot blame the police in such a case. The police are merely the instruments whereby the public sense of what is right or wrong expresses itself. . . ." Neither of the "Press Peers," Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, cares a hoot for "Civilization." The Daily Express (Beaverbrook) merely hung upon Legs a second screaming series of articles about "American desperadoes" (the first series was hung on the shooting of Alfred ["Jake"] Lingle in Chicago-TIME, June...
Hoover to Catholics. "I will be obliged if you will express my cordial greetings to the meeting this evening of the National Eucharistic Congress,, at which, I am informed, you [George William Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago] will preside, and my appreciation of the value of spiritual ideals and of religious observance in the life of the nation, which are indispensable foundations of the social order and of enduring political institu tions." Lutheran Aside. The Burke outburst astonished Lutherans, still at Milwaukee last week, and suggested to them a new significance in what they had considered merely a formal Presidential greeting...
...enclose a clipping from our Sioux Falls Argus Leader where your mayor and Legion Commauder have called you down for calling the actions of some of the Boys in the recent convention at Boston by the right name. Now please allow me to express myself as I feel as far as loyalty is concerned no one has a better right at eighty years...
...estimated that over $5,000,000 was spent in Boston during the convention. That business should therefore wink at the truth is-natural. But it is a peculiar twist of public morality which leads the mayors of Boston and Cambridge to hasten to express indignation at honest and justified criticism, when their criticism could have been so much more effective had it been directed against the conditions surrounding the Legion Convention itself. A little intellectual honesty and straight thinking in public would be distinct assets to nearly all of our officials...