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...Meanwhile President Hoover, who will have to stand on any Prohibition plank carpentered by the Convention, continued diligently to pursue his policy of silent neutrality. Ever since he threw away his chance, offered by the report of the Wickersham Commission, to take a Wet stand, he has been increasingly regarded by the public as a Dry. His friends report that he is irritated by the liquor agitation, calls it "poppycock," insists that the question is one for Congress to deal with first...
...beer tax. Another favored a system of taxes on checks, legal documents, radios, luxuries, motor vehicles et al. Sales tax objectors, however, were so vociferous that Mr. Crisp decided to prepare some "perfecting amendments" which make exemptions here & there. Secretary of the Treasury Mills hurried to the Capitol, threw the solid support of the Administration behind the tax bill...
Thomas Nast was no soldier in the Civil War, but as a cartoonist he threw himself into it with the same gusto he gave every fight. The South was a nation of tobacco-chewing slave whippers. Lincoln was his saint. Grant his personal hero. In 1862 Fletcher Harper hired him for Harper's Weekly at a good salary. From that day Harper's and Nast were an unbeatable team, the most influential artist, the most influential magazine in the country. When they separated in 1886 Harper's lost its circulation, and Nast, though he tried to start a paper...
...Confer 2L and E. N. Kimball '35 put on the outstanding bout of the day, with Confer, a former Yale grappler, finally throwing the Freshman team wrestler in an overtime period. In the 125-pound class G. T. Wagner '35 threw Morris Gamm 2L in short order, after the latter had won the lightweight division. Albert Aranson '35 annexed the heavyweight crown by pinning H. C. McClees '34 after four minutes struggle...
Ensued a terrific struggle. Finally Detective Holden wrested the knife from the old man's hand, threw him panting into the front seat. Tenderly he bound the spitz's neck with his own bandana. Then off he raced again...