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...ness has been witness to it. The Hearst publications are a good example. With several publications under one control, it is only natural that one of them should advertise in another. But the typical tactics of the trust idea in publications are to go beyond the mere exchange of overt advertising and to boost one another editorially. The Hearst papers do this continually. The result of such attempts may almost invariably be diagnosed by a glance at the "puff" which is printed as news or comment. It is usually fatuous, vapid. Its very effort to spread butter is nauseous...
...campaigning for nomination he has done none, in the overt sense. But a recent speech in Manhattan indicates his political attitude...
...argumentation, it is puerile to dwell on exceptions, they prove nothing and get one nowhere. No movement for the betterment of society has been able to escape the overt acts of simple-minded fanatics. Merely because of the actions of the militant suffragettes is it to be maintained that woman suffrage is bad and was brought about by low-down methods? If it is not, then how can any self respecting person with a college trained mind maintain that prohibition was put over on the people by illegal methods because of the acts of the "hatchet-bearing females...
...openly politicians are developing their strategy for the political campaign of 1924. Mr. Underwood has had his candidacy openly under way for several weeks. Mr. McAdoo has campaigned, not openly, but visibly, for several months. Among the Republicans, President Coolidge has a boom dating from August, and needing no overt expression. Four weeks ago Governor Pinchot picked his issue, without announcing his candidacy, by beginning his attack on the Administration's enforcement of prohibition. Last week a second Republican found his issue?Senator Hiram Johnson of California...
What he did was to see one notable after another in private conference. What he said to them or they said to him nobody knew, except in a few instances when a drop of news leaked out from one of the visitors. The only overt act of the President's for several days was to take up work in the White House office. The White House itself, which adjoins the office, was left at the disposal of Mrs. Harding...