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...said: 'All right, sir, I will make my fight on the floor of the convention.' 'I don't care a damn where you make your fight,' replied Hanna."The chapter goes on to imply that the Massachusetts Senator double-crossed Mark Hanna in giving the gold plank to the press prematurely, and that he later took credit for having written the plank...
With the end of the fiscal year on March 31, the press, while cautioning the people against undue optimism, holds out the hope of tax reductions in the new budget...
...meet prominent men connected with the University, visiting speakers, and others whose opinions may be of interest to University men. In the latter part of the competition candidates will be given an opportunity to learn the mechanical work of the paper serving as make-up men in the press room...
...take long for the causal visitor to Geneva, during the Third League Assembly, in September 1922, to reach the obvious conclusion that the League is very much alive. In common with many other Americans, with whom the press and visitors' galleries in the Assembly Hall were literally packed, I attended the sessions of the Council, Assembly, and Commissions day by day for over a month, and came away strongly convinced that the League, far from being in any sense dead, had definitely come to stay in the world, and had a spirit behind it, embodied by such leaders as Lord...
...more serious divergence of views appeared at the Paris Conference on Reparations last fall. The French and British plans were incompatable, no compromise could be arranged and the conference failed. At that time one review claimed "that France is rapidly losing the friendship of Great Britain", English press has had little but condemnation for French action in the Ruhr, while English garrisons at bridgeheads over the Rhine have opposed the advance of French forces. The Liberal Party of England, with its strength constantly growing, definitely advocates more active opposition to the French policy. The breach has been steadily widening: historians...