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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to plain opinions openly expressed, Governor Ritchie has shone in local affairs; since 1920, for example, the tax rate of Maryland has been decreased thirty percent. The State has today an authoritative credit of one hundred percent, and in this Maryland is unique among the 48 states. Locally, therefore, Ritchie is strongly cheered; his economies and shrewd conduct of the business of the State have increased his hold on the citizens of Maryland...
Last week the Noise Abatement Commission set up its noise-making gadget (3A audiometer) in Riverdale Country School at Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y. For four days 200 boys, divided in two groups, were bothered during daily one-hour examinations by loud noise (70 decibels), moderate noise (55) and plain ordinary room noise (30 to 35). The boys grew tired, their work grew worse in proportion to the noise. Conditions were better than in the average city school, for no attempt was made to duplicate the sharp sudden noises of traffic at its peak. The Riverdale boys could endure monotonous...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, though he had said he was no active candidate, waved his four-year-old Brown Derby vigorously at his enchanted friends. Plain, blunt John Nance Garner stuck ostentatiously to his Speakership. Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray with Oklahoma's 22 votes in his pocket stumped the Mid-West with violence and passion. Maryland's Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie charmed well-bred audiences while hoping for a convention deadlock to make him the lucky compromise candidate. Newton Diehl Baker went about his private business as if he had never heard of the Presidency...
...tricky. . . ." Retorted Boston's Mayor: "In the words of the poet, 'Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!'" When a complete slate of Smith delegates, headed by Governor Ely and Senator Walsh, was put into the field, it became plain as a pikestaff that the Brown Derby was in the campaign up to its ears, that its intention was to corner enough convention votes to keep Governor Roosevelt from conjuring...
...plain Orang-Outang And if others didn't like...