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...Before the last Congressional election in November, 1922, there were not more than 50 pro-labor and forward-looking Congressmen. Labor and Progressive Republicans and Democrats threw themselves into the primary and election campaigns and elected 170 members of the Nation's House of Representatives. These are distributed among the various parties as follows: Democrats, 105; Republicans, 63; Farmer-Labor, 1; Independent, 1; total, 170 - an increase of 120 Congressmen in one election. The reëlection of these 170 and the election of 80 more Congressmen representing the people will bring the people a safe working majority...
...received at the Théâtre des Champs-Éilysées? Was there any truth in the report that the audience threw things...
...Watch Glennon," said Coach Cleo O'Donnell Holy Cross mentor, on the eve of the annual struggle with the Crimson last year. This was no idle threat, for time and again the shifty Purple back threw fear into the Harvard adherents with his dazzling speed and uncanny ability to keep his feet. Only a superb defense at a crucial moment prevented a score last fall, and gave the Crimson the best of the 6-0 score...
...minutes before 2 p. m., Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Gillett, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, C. Bascom Slemp, marched into the President's box at the ball park. The President smoked a cigar. Babe Ruth came to shake hands. The President threw out a ball and the game was on. Mrs. Coolidge kept a box score and yelled lustily; the President, not so lusty at first, perked up as the game went to an exciting finish. He was the first man to rise in the lucky seventh inning. When the score...
...something more than action. The Republican State Convention in Kansas refused to repudiate the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. White says that the Republican candidate for Governor, Ben S. Paulen, and the Democratic candidate, Governor Jonathan M. Davis, both received the support of the Klan in the primaries. So he threw his pen on the floor and jumped onto a soap box?Independent candidate for Governor. He cried...