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...serve the nation it was in the realization that the war against trusts would need trained umpires, whom the fanaticism of a people berserk would not lead into for getting that there is such a thing as a desirable monopoly. Sumptuary legislation meets in him an erect hard-thinking foe...
Half an hour before the Nominee's arrival at the Coliseum, appeared the man who once called him "the deadliest foe of moral progress in America," thin-lipped hot-eyed Parson John Roach Straton. There was some altercation, but Dr. Straton clutched his ticket. He had promised to behave. He was admitted and took a seat at the back of the platform. His presence intensified the Nominee's grim earnestness. It was a real Moment in the campaign...
...party had solemnly set forth. . . . Let it be clearly understood that we will fight to the bitter end the election of Alfred E. Smith, not because he is a member of the Catholic Church . . . but because he has gone out of his way to announce himself as the implacable foe of things that we count most dear. . . . Let there be no wavering. Let us march steadily forward to victory. 'In the name of our God, we will set up our banners.' Let us baptize afresh our Christian Endeavor motto, 'For Christ and Our Church...
...leader of the Liberal party, won 228 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The Royalists losing 100 seats, kept only 15. Only one supporter of General Theodore Pangalos, onetime dictator (TIME, March 1#151;Aug. 30, 1926) and bitter foe of M. Venizelos, was elected...
...chef was the Rev. John Roach Straton, blatant Manhattan pulpiteer, who characterized Governor Smith, last fortnight, as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom." Challenged to debate the charge in his own Calvary Baptist Church (TIME, Aug. 20), Pulpiteer Straton weasled, tried to shift the scene to local amphitheatres. But Nominee Smith declined to make a public show. He wrote: "The answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would...