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...there is no profit in being an also-ran, which is all that 10,000,000 votes can make a candidate. Vain as Huey Long is, his career shows that he generally chooses for profit rather than notoriety or glory. If he chooses for profit, his threat of entering the campaign will be something on which he can set a high price. Republicans have already calculated that the 13,000,000 votes which they polled last autumn must be the absolute minimum conservative vote in the U. S. If Huey Long can poll 10,000,000 votes as third-party...
...power business, the Committee issued memoranda and analyses of the proposed legislation, prepared statements, encouraged protest. The American Federation of Utility Investors, which through chain letters has collected nearly 1,000,000 signatures to a petition against Government power projects, opened fire on the latest threat to the interests which it frankly represents...
Though a preventive war with the support of England was unthinkable, action on the part of the other Powers might have meant chaos at home, rather than incur which threat he probably would have been quite willing to retreat to "previously prepared positions...
...Mexico, Archbishop Ruiz, just, meticulous, declared that in one respect General Calles and the Holy See see eye to eye. "I do not believe Calles represents any danger to the principle of private property, which the Church likewise supports," observed her Apostolic Delegate, "but he does represent a threat to the Church. . . . Some of Calles' actions, such as the Government distribution of lands to the peons and the establishment of minimum wage laws in industry, have won a good deal of sympathy for him among the poorer people. But it still remains a fact that Calles is personally...
Instantly there was turmoil. Mr. Fox's threat of a dictatorship was scoffed at but the scoffing was tremulous and there were conferences behind locked doors, attempts to reassure alarmed exhibitors. Rumors flew that Mr. Fox had been offered millions to sell out. He answered by suing virtually the whole industry, eleven companies in all. By this time the defendants' battery of counsel included onetime Attorney General William D. Mitchell...