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...amend the Constitution so that the State might spend some $20,000 over a period of years buying up abandoned farms and denuded lands ad joining State parks, and proceed to reforest them. Governor Roosevelt, Tam many Hall and all New York Republicans supported the proposal on a non-partisan basis. Mr. Smith startled his party by a slashing and repeated attack on the Amendment as a "gold brick" designed only to benefit the lumber and pulp companies which had cut over the now-barren territory. He also objected to the proposal's mandatory expenditure each year...
Americans would understand. But in Europe, they do not understand this giant of the Senate, his primitive background, and incalculable idealism. In Europe they believe that all politicians are realists. Non-partisan experts have said for years that debts and reparations should be cancelled, that the Polish Corridor was an invention of the devil, but these honest opinions in the mouth of a politician are for Europe nothing short of deadly weapons of aggression. Warsaw's newssheets shouted "Borah, a German Agent," the mildest adjective that Paris papers found for him was "naïve." Intentionally...
...membership continues to be a diehard association of specialist craftsmen, for which industry has less & less use. On his death bed Gompers petulantly directed his membership to support the Presidential candidacy of the late Robert Marion La Follette, thus disregarding the non-partisan pledge of the Federation's first constitution. Samuel Gompers did not even get his own candidate into the A. F. of L.'s presidency. Instead it fell into the hands of an idealist...
...part of U. S. law and only Congress can suspend their operation. It was to win Congressional support well in advance that the President had summoned some Senators and Representatives to the White House, telephoned others. Adroitly he had averted political opposition by pitching his plan on a non-partisan level. In his statement he was able to list 21 Senators (twelve of them Democrats) and 18 Congressmen (four of them Democrats) by whom "this course of action has been approved." Next debt pay day is Dec. 15. Congress assembles Dec. 7. President Hoover was confident that, with the support...
...from the club's report, the Mayor was quick to take advantage of the sympathy which they created for him among his liberty-loving fellow citizens. Nor was he unaware that Mr. Fox's Republican City Affairs Committee might be confused in the public mind with the non-partisan City Affairs Committee of Rabbi Wise and Preacher Holmes. On the same day that his vituperative retort to the Wise-Holmes complaint reached the Governor, the sensitive Mayor flayed his Republican adversaries...