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Died. Alfred Peckham Perry, 89, insurance man who voted the straight Republican ticket in 15 out of 16 Presidential elections (exception: a ballot for Alfred Emanuel Smith and repeal in 1928); in Manhattan...
...first day, after a disorderly, hot-tempered session, the delegates voted nearly 2-to-1 against a flat repeal of the no-strike pledge. Next morning they voted the other way (against reaffirming the pledge), by a closer tally, 5,232-to-4,988. In complete confusion, the convention sent the whole matter back to committee. Out of committee came the referendum compromise...
...must, he said, do certain things to give other nations complete confidence in the dollar (which is to be the key currency), such as: cancel all World War I debts ($14,256,000,000); repeal the Johnson Act; repeal all silver-purchase legislation; repeal the Gold Reserve Act amendments allowing the Treasury to trade in gold at other than the official rate of $35 per ounce; free the dollar of all exchange controls. Other items: the U.S. must also incidentally balance the federal budget, and, of course, must avoid both a postwar boom or a depression...
...Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft (after blaming the Army for enforcing the law too literally) agreed to sponsor an amendment to his Title V of the Soldier Vote Act which would make it "easier to administer . . . clearer in context." Unappeased, some publishers and writers still demanded outright repeal...
...That is what the American people expect the Republican Party to accomplish. That is why, in so many streams of late, they have been changing so many horses. . . . We do not propose to deny the progress that has been made during the last decade. Neither do we aim to repeal it. Whatever its source, if it is good we will acknowledge it. If it is sound we will build on it. We do not aim to turn the clock back and make an issue of every administration mistake in the past eleven years...