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...candidate next year entitles him to the highest praise of the American people. If Mr. Hoover were to make a like decision, he would have the undying gratitude of the rank and file of the Republican party." Asked if he himself would be a candidate. Senator Johnson snapped: "Quit kidding me! When I'm a candidate you'll know about it. I don't see why certain people have to be so coy about other people's political hopes. Is it any matter for kidding if a man has a desire to gratify his political ambitions...
...tonight. Waving a copy of the U. S. Constitution Governor Murray declared: "The next President must not be reared in the shadow of Wall Street. Such a man has no more conception of the Mississippi Valley than Satan has of the Kingdom of Heaven. . . . We've got to quit voting for lodges and churches and the geography that runs along the Harlem River and has a connection with Europe. . . . The common people are like a mule, young and vigorous but chained to a post so tight it can't move. I'm for breaking that chain...
Shortly from Bombay the Mahatma received a cable signed by leading spirits of his Indian National Congress. They begged him to quit the Indian Round Table Conference in London because it has shown no sign of recommending independence for India. Promptly St. Gandhi announced: "I will sail for Bombay from Genoa on the 29th. ... I feel that I'm wasting my time here, but I'm willing to stay in London until the end of the Conference, which I expect will be in a fortnight. Then nobody can accuse me of impatience...
...they refused to abide by a recent agreement reached between the national organization and employers, demanded a four-hour pay guarantee for Sunday and holiday work, a lighter sling load. For this unauthorized strike, the local union's charter was revoked. At Lawrence, Mass., 23,000 textile workers quit when threatened with a 10% wage cut. Most unusual was the fact that the Communist National Textile Workers and the conservative A. F. of L.'s United Textile Workers joined in concerted action. Lawrence police refused permission for the National unionists to convene on the common, arrested seven agitators...
While Tex Rankin was making a new record of 131 consecutive outside loops high above him, Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams went through his upside-down falling-leaf stunt one day last week at the Southern Air Pageant at Charlotte, N. C. Suddenly Lieut. Williams' motor quit. Unable to reach the runway without endangering the crowd, he crashed his plane into an embankment, was not badly hurt. Lieut. Williams' reason for the accident: water in the gasoline...