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...over players who are inferior in this respect. In fact, it has been so certain in the past that a team would drop the ball every few minutes of play, that until very recently, the coaches of club teams instructed their men to pursue a waiting game, expecting to profit by the errors of the opposing team...
...Republicans' losing; in a few of them there is a decided probability that the Democrats will win. In most of them it is too early even to give probabilities. But in these 14 cases by the law of chances and probabilities, the Democrats should take a handsome profit. At present the Democrats hold 40 seats in the Senate and 48 would be a working majority (leaving 47 Re, publicans, including those merely nominal, and one Farmer-Laborite...
...Democrats are in a fair way to profit without an issue and without a general pitched battle, and they have at least a good case for a counter argument: That it is the Republicans who have failed to arouse an issue, for without a great rallying cry like "No foreign entanglements!" which they used in 1920, the Republicans have small chance of holding their working majority. The leaders of the Democrats are at least astute enough not to lose this advantage...
...outcry of the malcontents is unanswered. The Democratic leaders are not great enough to forego a small profit for a chance of a greater, to swing a united party behind them into the battle line and lay the fortunes of their party upon the lap of the gods. They have no great benefactor of mankind to teach us new dissatisfactions?the stuff of which our issues are made...
...House of himself and his eight colleagues as "managers" in impeachment proceedings against Judge English, and he read five lengthy articles of impeachment, charging the Judge with arbitrary and abusive acts on the bench and with collusion with one Charles B. Thomas, referee in bankruptcy, for the sake of profit for themselves, their families and friends in the handling of the property of bankrupts. Manager Michener then demanded Judge English's conviction and removal from office for these alleged misdemeanors, and the Vice President ordered that the Senate next day resolve itself into a body for the trial...