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...shouting: "We want Bonus!" Finally he doused them with a pitcher of ice water and the remark: "There's a bonus for you." Special agents sent from Washington raided five headquarters in two days, seized a good supply of liquor. Members of the gist Division, incensed, wired a protest to Washington, began to campaign against President Hoover. Legionaries were struck with the number of tipsy women on the streets...
Potatoes & Protest. What caused Maine's voters to elect dapper, wisecracking, rabbit-lipped Louis Jefferson Brann as its fourth Democratic Governor since the Civil War and send two Wet Democrats out of three to Congress? A variety of causes evidently combined. In low lobster and potato prices Maine is resentfully aware of hard times. Hoover relief is slow reaching its rocky shores, its little towns, its forests and farms. Secretary Mills, stumping the State, urged voters to stand by the President and his party, thereby injecting the Hoover-Roosevelt issue into the campaign. A majority...
Governor-elect Brann explained his victory thus: "The campaign was fought out on economic lines and the ineptitude of the Hoover Administration. They were the controlling factors. The people voted their protest against existing conditions...
...Canal Zone. He wrote long homemade odes for every public occasion. Sample: Drift, clouds, drift, far o'er the Western sea; Rift, clouds, rift, in loveliness to me. Blow, winds, blow! Flow, tides, flow! Gild all with glory, Sun, we ask of thee! Canal workers submitted a protest to President Taft which read: "It isn't that we object to real poetry but Governor Thatcher's poetry is objectionable from every point of view. Something should be done by those in authority." Governor Thatcher's critics at the Tivoli Hotel parodied as follows: Crow, cocks, crow...
...Secretary Hurley did com plain about news stories filed by Pearson to the Sun in recent months, but made no protest about the "Cotillion Leader" chapter in More Merry-Go-Round. Of their own volition, Sun executives decided that Pearson's part in the book was a "last straw," that his usefulness to the news paper was ended...