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...Coolidge gone to Kansas City in 1928, he might easily have stampeded that Republican convention, which shied off Herbert Hoover until the last moment. Equally well, perhaps even more easily, considering the volatility of Democrats and their susceptibility to speeches like Bryan's "Cross of Gold," might a sudden Smith uprising stampede the Chicago convention away from Roosevelt. But that could not happen unless Roosevelt were blocked on the first few ballots, and the direction of the stampede would probably not be toward Alfred Emanuel Smith. His anti-Roosevelt outburst last week and the assurance of his presence...
Like his name, which in Javanese means "Wink of the Sky" (Lightning), Phar Lap's death was sudden, frightful, mysterious. His trainer, Tommy Woodcock, who always slept within a few feet of Phar Lap's stall, had gone into the stall early in the morning and found Phar Lap lying down. He had called Phar Lap's veterinary, Dr. Walter Nielsen. They diagnosed colic. As the big, long-legged carcass stiffened, Dr. Nielsen took out its stomach and entrails. These told him that Phar Lap had been ill two days...
Born. To Gloria Swanson, 31, film actress, and Michael Farmer, 29, Irish sportsman; a daughter; in London. Weight: 7 Ib. 2 oz. Name: Michele Bridget. Said Actress Swanson: "I'm so excited I can hardly talk. ... It was all so sudden." She was illegally married Aug. 16 last year, was remarried in November after her divorce from her third husband, Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye, became final...
...reserved for the greatest books. From the scribesmen also he took the manuscripts on which for centuries they had been perpetuating the classics: he printed them with copious and cloquent notes, and scattered them throughout the libraries of Italy. Out of these the artists of the Renaissance took the sudden vision and the new ideal which made them famous...
Before closing its long-drawn hearing last week, Senator Borah's subcommittee took a sudden and surprising tack. It wanted to know what the whole country has wanted to know since last summer? the facts surrounding the "deal" which U. S. Attorney George Emmerson Q (for nothing) Johnson made with Capone. How much or how little did Judge Wilkerson know about the understanding before it was brought out in court...