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Unlike the last time the party invaded Chicago to nominate Warren Gamaliel Harding after a midnight meeting in the Blackstone Hotel, there were no bustling headquarters of rival aspirants for candidacy. Onetime Senator Joseph I. France of Maryland kept a lone vigil with a pair of stenographers in a suite at the Congress, ridiculously hopeful of a boon which the party leaders downstairs on the mezzanine floor had not the slightest intention of bestowing upon him. Marshall Field & Co. displayed a collection of small elephants. Loop district street lights were decorated with the party symbol on bunting. But throughout...
...Adopted (176-to-129) a resolution by Missouri's Shannon to investigate "Government competition with private enterprise" in the form of sales of merchandise at Army posts and elsewhere; viewed as exhibits a pair of women's pink silk pyjamas purchased at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and an array of gin, rum. corn and rye flavoring extracts bought at a Government store in Washington...
Short of a military coup d'etat or acquiescence of Adolf Hitler in a coalition this prediction seemed flatly unfulfillable. Observers inclined, however, to see in General von Schleicher and Baron von Gayl precisely the pair who may be able to draw Adolf Hitler into a Junkers-Army-Fascist coalition, thus giving the Fatherland a fresh and iron front, potent in dealing with other nations...
Julius Gregory took time off from designing country homes to hammer out a pair of silver sugar tongs...
Julian C. Levi also hung up a pair of foils, a mask, and a brass French fireman's helmet, trophy of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, whose disdain for the pompiers of the city is expressed in their marching song...