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Democrat Huddleston: Of course you all know how irresponsible I am [loud Democratic laughter]. Yes, I'm without following and am responsible to nobody. So I can afford to tell the truth...
...loud slamming of the White House's front door shortly after March 4, 1929 was responsible for reverberating echoes about political Washington last week. The slammer was President Hoover; the slammee was a bristly-haired, thick-necked Tennessee lawyer named Col. Horace Mann.* A skillful organizer and patronage broker for the G. O. P., South, Col. Mann used to play poker with President Harding, no stickler in politics. He did useful jobs for Calvin Coolidge in 1924. An ardent Hooverizer, he turned up in Kansas City in 1928 with enough Negro delegates on his list to ensure the Beaverman...
Morningside Heights greeted the Butler award with loud hosannas. This has been a Butler year at Columbia: it marks the 69th anniversary of the learned doctor's birth, the 30th anniversary of his presidency of the University. The Nobel Prize could have come at no better time. To Europeans the reward seemed well merited. Dr. Butler is reputedly the man who persuaded Andrew Carnegie to establish the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. No U. S. citizen is better known in European chancelleries, none has been so often honored...
...what they should wear on this memorable occasion; costumes varied from full evening dress, frock coats, dinner jackets to sack suits. Just before the Presidential Promise was administered occurred one of those little contretemps so distressing to orderly Nordic minds. The shrill voice of Senora Alcala Zamora rose in loud lament in the lobby: "But I tell you Niceto forgot and went off with my tickets in his pockets!" Generals rushed to the rescue. Breathing hard. Senora Alcala Zamora eventually found a seat in the press gallery...
...nation fell upon hard days, for the bugle of Napoleon was loud in the land. What Russia and Austria could not do the Emperor of France seemed all too easily able to bring about. The Prussian flag lay furled as the world stared on at Prenzlau, Ratkau and Auerstadt. A handful of men stormed over Europe shouting "The Old Guard neither dies nor surrenders," and Prussia shivered in the Baltic fogs. In Prussia at this time dwelt an old man, who later gave his name to a fine boot, who was to see them do both...