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Again, Senator Fess has ever been a Coolidge man, a "Coolidge-anyway" man. Only once has he endeavored to dispel the impression that he is the Coolidge spokesman in the Senate, and he later confessed that that one endeavor was only a political charade. The object of the "Coolidge-anyway" movement has been to block Candidate Hoover with uninstructed delegates and its aim, according to pessimists, is another "hotel room" nomination. The choice of Keynoter Fess seemed like a peep through the hotel room keyhole...
...Candidate Woollen, in Republicanly corrupt Indiana, Candidate Reed sent a telegram asking permission to go there and speak, not for delegates but to "be of service to the party. That is my sole object." Candidate Woollen wired back: ". . . We all will gladly join in welcoming...
Bombings. In Chicagoese, "pineapple" is a euphemism for an ugly, black, egg-shaped object known elsewhere as a hand-grenade. Since the first of the year they have been utilized 21 times by racketeers angry for one reason or another with fellow racketeers, politicians, bootleggers, gamblers. Last week "pineapples" exploded on the doorsteps of U. S. Senator Charles S. Deneen and Judge John A. Swanson. The results were mild for Chicago; no one was killed; only the fronts of two houses were blown to splinters...
...Department of Chemistry contemplates making the change, there will be available data that would seem to bear somewhat directly on the decision. Two years ago the Department of Bio-Chemical Sciences was created, with the object of removing evils then present in the system of pre-medical education. Although the achievements toward which the two systems point are essentially different, there is a similarity between the field that is not wholly superficial. The kinship between Physics and Chemistry is likewise great enough so that the influence of the sister science will probably be thrown into the scales. Dangerous...
There is a game which children play at parties: twelve brats line up eleven chairs and march past them as minstrels play a tune; the object is to sit quickly. In the last few weeks many members of the International Missionary Council, in all corners of the world, picked up their satchels and started going to Jerusalem. Their object was to meet in this ancient town and begin a fortnight's discussion of the problems of enlarging Christianity...