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Samuel Gompers,President of the American Federation of Labor, returned to the U. S. fresh from a romp in Mexico, where he had been supporting Radical General Plutarco Calles for the Mexican Presidency, and whence have emanated shrieks of protest from Conservative supporters of General Adolfo de la Huerta...
...gratifying prevalence of sanity at this seat of learning, I suppose that nothing need really have been said at all. I am, however, unable to deny myself the pleasure of inquiring whether Mr. Sinclair's absence from the Harvard-Yale football games posterior to 1916 was intended as a protest against the insidious spread of "Romanism" among our players? I am-- Very Sincerely HUGH WHITNEY...
Altogether, Mr. Glynn-Ward and Senor Blanco make out a strong case against the commonplace stereotypes of modern romances. If some patriot American critic would only file a protest against the poor-but-honest serving girl and the white-haired general of industry who invariably appears in the middle of the morning in full dress, the indictment would be complete...
...Governors of Utah and Maine conferred in secret. Next day Governor Sweet of Colorado injected into the proceedings a memorial on prohibition. It declared that the Governors favored prohibition enforcement and that prohibition had already improved conditions in their respective states. At once the Wets rose to protest, led by Governors Parker of Louisiana, Silzer of New Jersey and Blaine of Wisconsin. The matter was dropped and the conference adjourned at 11:00 p. m. Then Governor Sweet and Governor Pinchot with Governor Trinkle of Virginia retired to redraft their resolution. Governor Sweet declared the product of their work...
...position of the Berlin Government was most obscure. Beyond making a protest to the French authorities for the disarming of the German police in Bonn, Chancellor Stresemann maintained an ominous silence. The French returned the arms they had seized to the police...