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...Federation's policy. If this was their aim, which it is now permissible to doubt, they failed. The Executive Council stayed close to its policy; but by endorsing LaFollette and Wheeler as independent candidates, by endorsing their platform, by denouncing the Republican and Democratic candidates and platforms, it threw its moral weight behind the LaFollette Progressive movement...
...world flyers have never had any clothes except those they stood in. With the enormous gasoline loads their ships had to carry, they could not even have the luxury of the extra weight of a spare pair of socks. When they landed from arctic regions, they threw away their winter kit and bought lighter garb. Last week they were stationed at the small village of Brough on the Humber in England, having an "easy time"- though working feverishly all day, overhauling their motors, reconditioning their planes-and purchasing new cold-weather outfits for their passage over the North Atlantic. Woolen...
Lord Apsley, Conservative, said that "Odin threw it at another god who was making love to Odin's wife. The stone missed the culprit and fell among the Scots...
William M. Butler, Campaign Manager of President Coolidge, announced that his candidate would not go on the stump, but would campaign by radio from the Capital. The radiocasters threw up their hands in supplication and distraction...
Elkdom's origin dates from one November night In 1867, when an English comic singer landed in Manhattan, strolled down Lispenard Street, dropped into a "Free and Easy," sang songs for his supper, made friends. The friends threw dice for their drink but the Cockney showed them a better game: dropping corks on the bar and picking them up, the last man to recover his cork standing treat...