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...unselfish worker for Republican success during more than a quarter century, after consultation with many national, State and local leaders, I call upon you on the eve of the investigation of your Attorney General to make on behalf of the party the magnificent sacrifice which one who has been supremely honored owes to the honest masses who make the Republican Party the hope of the country. Only a man strong enough to throw off the imputation upon himself and his party of the toleration of less than the highest standards of public virtue will fill the crying need...
...soon as the weather and ground conditions at the local and country clubs are favorable, practice will begin for candidates for the University golf team, according to an announcement made last night. The schedule has been completed except for a few matches and playing privileges at some club are being secured. The team will not practice at Belmonth, as in previous years, and it is hoped that arrangements will soon be completed elsewhere...
Father Giovanni Vanninetti, editor of a Sondrio journal, wrote some humorous comments upon the War-decorations of the local Fascist candidate. Belisario Cantagalli, a Fascist secretary, challenged him to a duello. General Ricciotti Garibaldi, last surviving son of the great patriot, was reported very ill, was not expected to recover. His wife and daughters remain by him day and night, but his sons are abroad, one in Mexico, one in China...
...Pulitzer prize for 1922 for Playwright Davis is not good enough to get past the screen Cerberus. Thus the ne'er-do-well of the play, discontented with his frigidly austere environment, is apotheosized in the films into a pretty good boy, much put upon for mocking local narrowness. The shiftless youth who was saved by his mother's hand, reaching out from the grave through a devoted girl, becomes merely a sulky Achilles, not far enough gone to the dogs to require a lifeline...
...teachers' bloc" should be formed to promote the interest of teachers in legislatures, local and national. The immediate aim of the teachers' bloc (at present a reality without a name) is the Educational Bill. Teachers are unanimously in favor of a Cabinet post for a Secretary of Education (TIME...