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...editor of the Dry Christian Herald, had a long "background chat" with President Hoover at the White House. Last week Editor High wrote in his Christian Herald: "The major obstacle in the path of the repealists is Herbert Hoover. The success of their program requires that he be got rid of . . . the Drys need, we believe, to see to it, first of all, that Herbert Hoover, the Dry, is renominated...
...Chairman Raskob and Executive Chairman Shouse?signed a manifesto on the party's future course. They said they regarded their "remark- able victory" as an "opportunity for constructive service." The Republican tariff they flayed as the "apotheosis of bad economy" but added: "Whatever changes may be considered necessary to rid the present act of its outstanding enormities, nothing is further from [our] minds than a general revision of the tariff." Other excerpts...
...didn't....I never....oooooh, well perhaps....but I don't see....dammitall, it was the chair....they've had these trick chairs here for just years and years....what, the place is closing?....it's a dirty lie, they're just trying to get rid of us....they think we're cockeyed....closing indeed, why it's only....well perhaps....the Somerset....a good idea....hey, my hat,....no....no....don't....it isn't that kind....hey....oh well, it was getting sort of furry looking anyway....hey taxi...
...organizations, I believe I can say that they have a very malicious effect on the mind of the student when it is in its formative stage, particularly in teaching the "inevitability of war." The student is taught to take war as a normal part of life: the efforts to rid the world of this scourge are seldom mentioned...
...Last week it was announced (by Hearstpapers) that a subscription fund aiming at $1,000,000 was being raised in the underworld to rid Chicago of Police Commissioner John H. Alcock, appointed after the Lingle killing to rid the city of gangsters...