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Since South Africander Hertzog is of Dutch descent and rather relishes baiting Englishmen, there is some reason to suppose that he deliberately upset the intended emphasis on Edward of Wales. The Prime Minister's excuse is, clearly, that his indiscreet interview was given in the heat of a verbal battle, at Pretoria, with the nationalist politicians of those parts who bluntly demand secession from Britain and proclamation of a Republic...
...Anti-Saloon League has collected more than $70,000,000 to make bootlegging and moonshining one of the big, safe, profitable institutions. . . . The fanatical fervor of the Anti-Saloon League for the bone-dry law that has popularized drinking and upset our nation-old standard of respect for law, is due to the financial rewards they pay themselves out of the money they get for falsely representing that Prohibition is an unqualified success...
Advisory Chairman-Peter Gollet Gerry, the wealthy well-born Harvard-bred hound-riding U. S. Senator from Rhode Island who upset traditional Republican calculations in his state as a young man (1916-he is now 48) and has since continued popular with his state's large labor vote...
...Last year it was the Pirates in the National League, the Yankees in the American. This year it is the Cardinals and the Yankees. Critics who this week, on the Fourth of July, read the standings of the clubs, could not see much chance that the tradition would be upset. With the taste for theories and computations common to all baseball fans, they tabulated the qualifications of the other clubs in the National League. They considered the Giants, able and expensive, but needing a pitcher, or three pitchers, since they had one-Benton. They considered Brooklyn, strong...
Next day the commuters read in their papers how the outboard motorboats that they had seen had raced round Staten Island and how Baby Olds, piloted by D. W. Brewster, had won after Miss Princess caught fire and the Corson upset. And they read how in all the waters fringing the continent little boats, big boats, sailboats, motorboats, were being launched, sailed, raced...