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...notorious years ago for its greed in the matter of pensions, was thoroughly provoked with the behavior of World War Bonuseers. Its legislative committee flayed last summer's Bonus march to Washington, blamed "the insistent and excessive demands of World War veterans" for the G. A. R.'s failure to pass legislation upping Civil War widows' pensions. The committee then curiously added: "We assured him [President Hoover] the Grand Army, of all organizations, would not embarrass the President of the United States." A resolution endorsing full payment of the Bonus to members of the American Legion was unsympathetically tabled...
...amplifying system completely broke down, but here, was what he was supposed to have said: "This stanch Republican [Dr. France] occupies a unique position in our national life. At times he has been called too radical, at others too conservative. He belongs neither to the right wing of greed nor to the left wing of license. He is as radical as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, and as conservative!" The Maryland delegation rose, booed, held up Hoover placards...
...Suicide Kreuger* was in the Pope's mind when he wrote: "If what the Holy Ghost affirms through the mouth of St. Paul is ever true, much more is it true at present: 'The desire of money is the root of all evils.' ... Is it not . . . greed . . . that has brought the world to a pass we all see and deplore? From greed arises . . . narrow individualism which orders and subordinates everything to its own advantage, . . . cruelly trampling under foot all rights of others. Hence the disorder and inequality from which arises the accumulation of the wealth of nations...
Even more than greed, the Church deplores atheism. To balance his reprimand, the Pope turned his attention toward Moscow, seat of capitalism's greatest enemy...
...managed to nose out four other candidates. As a Wet, he handily defeated a weasler, one Omer N. Custer, whom repeal-vetoing Governor Louis Emmerson had selected as his successor. Nominee Small declaimed: "I accept the responsibility of leading the people in their battle against the forces of wealth, greed and privilege back to prosperity...