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...Stung by the Speaker's attack. President Hoover answered with a sizzling public statement explaining his objections to the relief bill. Excerpts...
Obviously stung by the term demagogue as applied by Alfred E. Smith, Franklin D. Roosevelt made answer Monday night in a speech at a political rally in St. Paul. Elevating his oration from a mere defence to a prolonged attack on the Republican economic program, Mr. Roosevelt reasserted his favorite criticism of the Hoover plan, reiterating the opinion that any effective solution must depend on a "policy that seeks to help all simultaneously." In an effort to give weight to his proposal, Mr. Roosevelt punctuated his address with ringing names drawn from the histories of both parties. Concluding that...
...Stung by editorial criticism of his conduct of the Kentucky mine murder trials, Judge Henry R. Prewitt ruled that no representative of the Knoxville News-Sentinel (Scripps-Howard) may sit in his court "until that paper retracts the libelous, slanderous, false statements it has published about this and other Kentucky courts...
...clue failed to work. They got tangled in the underbrush. They fell down the mountainous hillsides. It was very hot. ''Millions of beastly little insects" bit them, and their bites "stung and irritated like the deuce." Soon their time was up; baffled but undaunted they went back to England. "One of these days," says Capt. Campbell, in spite of this setback and in spite of the known failure of other Cocos Island treasure-seekers, he will try again...