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Chairman Fess was once a Wet himself. He went Dry politically only when Ohio did. When President Hoover picked him, a staid Anti-Saloon Leaguer, to head the national committee, many an observer concluded that the President was preparing to seek re-election in 1932 as a thoroughgoing Dry, was already consolidating the Dry forces in command of the national machine. It was even suspected that this move was designed to block the rising power and prestige of that potent Wet presidential possibility, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Republican Senatorial nominee in New Jersey. The Grand Old Party might, it seemed, become...
...speech. Because he had just come from a conference at the White House, his words and manner seemed to many observers to indicate a decided change in Administration attitude toward Prohibition enforcement. Such observers contrasted the personal and moral concern of earlier Prohibitionists, and their sweeping promises, with such staid excerpts from Mr. Woodcock's statement...
Occasion for this pointing-with-pride was the Museum's annual presentation of medals to U. S. railroads which establish the best yearly records for safe operation. In the staid Union League Club. Manhattan, President Williams passed to Alfred Emanuel Smith (Museum director), who passed them on to company officials, medals as follows...
...vain have I waited for TIME'S admirable "Cinema" Editor to report and expose Ingagi, Sir Hubert Winstead's African picture with supplied sound effects, which has startled staid Denver by its sensational and supposedly "scientific" shots...
Closest friend of Frau Gustav Stresemann, widow of the late, great German Foreign Minister, is Frau Albert von Baligand. These two tolerably young, distinctively vivacious ladies ("Kate" and "Else") were recently the life of Berlin's staid, stodgy officialdom (a German Cabinet officer's wife is supposed to look like an unpainted, unpowdered laundress, and most do). Tongues wagged when, two years ago, Stresemann sent Dr. von Baligand, then director of the press bureau of the German Government, to Portugal as German Minister. It was thought that Diplomat von Baligand owed this spectacular promotion to his wife...