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National figures were few in the closing days of the Democratic campaign. John William Davis kept at it over the radio. James Middleton Cox strove along the Border. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, famed baseballer, repeatedly told Midwesterners to disregard the Wall Street odds. "Don't forget Wall Street bet 3 to 1 against the Yankees in the World Series. Wall Street will be wrong again...
...Hoover New York Journal (Hearst) defended Nominee Smith from the "Socialist" charge. Hearst Cartoonist T. E. Powers drew a cartoon called "Wall Street Socialists." An elephant with whiskers and a silk hat scowled at a brown-derbied donkey and said: "You're a Socialist!" The donkey retorted: "Me, a Socialist? Oh! Charlie, won't you loan me your whiskers...
...Hollywood, Universal Co. began to make The Five Frankforters, a story about the Rothschild family. Assistant director is Wilfred Rothschild, onetime Wall Street runner, member of the family...
...inability to cope with a forward passing attack. The University forces have spend considerable time on their aerial offensive during this past week and it is more than likely that Harvard will use this opportunity to practice this department of the game, especially as the opposing forward wall is far from light...
Columns of newsprint recorded his achievements, mourned him. Editorial writers lauded him, decried his untimely end at 55. Among all these encomiums there was one dissenting voice. Said the Barron-bereaved Wall Street Journal, editorially: "His services were of the highest value and conditions today might have been different if his health had permitted undivided attention to his office for the past three months...