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...worn his voice down to a hoarse croak. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, unable to restrain his language longer, blurted out that Governor Roosevelt was "a common, garden variety of liar." Montclair, N. J. put up 327 street flags for the coming of Secretary of the Navy Adams. After a protest against their use on a political occasion authorities ordered the flags down. Town Commissioner Washington Irving Lincoln Adams (distant relative) ordered them back up again. Hardly had they been placed out for a second time before the sun set and they had to be taken down again. After a drive...
Unperturbed by a protest brought before the R. F. C. by the Board of Estimate and New York realtors, many of whose boxlike Bronx apartment houses are tenantless, Mr. Straus, Architect Stein and Andrew Eken announced: "The granting of the loan . . . marks, we hope and believe, a milestone in better housing for people of limited means. Governmental encouragement of such work will provide immediate employment for more than 1,000 men on the Hillside housing operation. . . . Further similar action on the part of Reconstruction Finance Corp. will provide the greatest possible stimulus to employment, as well as create a lasting...
...there is a Forgotten Man and if he will not forgive his forgetter, perhaps he will not trust his new champions. On the basis of this year's straw polls, about 1,700,000 protest votes are to be cast for Socialist Norman Thomas. Undoubtedly many an alleged Forgotten Man will, like Henry Ford, have failed to register or is otherwise ineligible to vote. It is also true that the forces against a Change are usually quietest when the likelihood of Change is most imminent. As of last week the election of 1932 looked like a narrower thing than...
...Thomas reported thus on his travels: "There's a strong Roosevelt sentiment throughout the country but it's based less on affection for or confidence in him than hatred of his opponent. There is more of this than I ever saw in American political life. All this protest vote will go to Roosevelt and not to me. But I've never yet been able to find a real Roosevelt rooter except perhaps Josephus Daniels who says he raised him. The Roosevelt people are those who put cotton in their ears so they can't hear...
...dismissal resulted in active protests on the parts of the students. Certain students were suspended as result of a disturbance in front of a police court. In considering the case we must remember that a college is not a body politic. The citizen enjoys rights which the student does not enjoy. One of those in the right of controlling those in authority. But the protests of the students in this case were designed to coerce the authorities rather than to convince them. Instead of approaching the faculty with persuasion and reasoning the students resorted to breaches of the peace...