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...inevitable though it seemed. He asserted stoutly that the Smith candidacy had anything but weakened the party nationally-look at that popular vote! He might have gone on-but he didn't-to point out that the Smith power, appeal and tradition were continued in him by every token-the long friendship, the nominating speeches, the direct bestowal of New York's Governorship. He might have suggested, as others did, that in him the Smith power might be liberated from the stigima of Roman Catholicism, Tammany, social ineligibility, dripping-wetness...
...think," concluded Nominee Smith, "I have fairly made out a case here tonight that the Republican Party is seeking to continue its control of this Government under false pretenses. It is seeking to keep that control by misstating and misrepresenting the Democratic attitude, and misstating, by the same token, and misrepresenting its own attitude on a great many of the big questions...
...perplexing problems last fall seems to be reasonably well solved this year. To be without quarter-backs who have had experience and possess a thorough knowledge of the game is an almost insuperable disadvantage to any team, however good it may be in other departments; and by the same token to have a staff of capable quarterbacks is an asset which cannot be overestimated...
...Period. Statistics are not the most strong exidence in its favor. Perhaps the most definite mark of its firm establishment is present in the least definite phenomenon at Harvard--student opinion. Perhaps it was in Cambridge first, as now, that silence in matters of great moment became known as token of assent...
Down a sunbaked Florida golf-fairway, John Davison Rockefeller, aged 88, last week propelled a golf-ball 175 yards. Up stepped Will Rogers, funnyman, with a discolored dime, and said: "Here, Mr. Rockefeller, take this as a little token of your wonderful drive. Be sure and don't spend it too fast...