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...wrote Correspondent Walker S. Buel, so published the Cleveland Plain Dealer one morning last week. No fault of theirs was it that they knew no better than every newspaper save one in the U. S., no fault of theirs that a White House stenographer had forgotten to give Secretary Stephen Early for release a letter that the President had dictated night before, a few minutes before starting for South America...
...gulls' plight was certainly not the fault of Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady. All week he labored to bring the striking seamen to terms with their employers. He got no results, but there was peace along the Pacific waterfronts because the strikers, anxious to prevent any excuse for armed intervention, had their own patrols keeping order and rounding up drunks. There was peace also because the Attorney General's office in Washington found legal reasons to excuse the U. S. Marshal in Los Angeles for ignoring a court order to unload some 4,000 stems...
Franklin Roosevelt, having a public taste of election triumph, pointed to that placard and cried: "That sign's all right, and it's all my fault. That's one time I didn't take Jim Farley's advice. He wanted me to go into Vermont and Maine. . . . Now I'm going back to Washington-to do what they call balance the Budget and fulfill the first promise of the campaign, and after a week or so with the Budget I'm going to get some sleep, and, because I can really sleep...
...event on the program, for which competition lasted three nights, riders were judged on form after a succession of difficult individual and group jumps. In first place after the first night's performance were the French (Captain François Durand and Lieutenant Amador de Busnel), with 19 faults to 23 each for Chile, Great Britain and the U. S. Jumping in pairs the next evening, the French team was charged ½ a fault, when Captain Durand and Captain Pierre Clave were a step out of alignment at one barrier, but even this left them a lead...
...Adam's guilt our souls hath split, his fault is charg'd upon...