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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Oct. 10. – See a ball game in Detroit, and home for early breakfast. Felt plum lost this afternoon without the Deans to watch.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Oct. 10. – Poor Mr. Roosevelt. He no more than gets one national thing straightened out than along comes something else. Just getting the codes out of the way when along comes Kansas and almost beats Notre Dame. ...
01:12 PM - Oct 10, 2023
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SAN SALVADOR, Oct. 10. – I am leaving for everything south of the equator. Revolutions are thicker down there than Roosevelt Republicans. Am flying down the west coast by Chili, then to Argentina for a week, and up the east coast by Brazil.

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01:11 PM - Oct 10, 2023
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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Oct. 10. – Mr. Coolidge said yesterday, “Some are supporting candidates because they are good fellows, it is vain to elect office-seekers who smile, you can’t run the government on entertainment.” Them’s harsh words, Calvin.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Oct. 10. – According to the morning press yesterday was a day of discovery.

Lindy and family discover a lot of buried towns outside of this country. ...
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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 10. – Hoover has always attended all our disasters, cheered the unfortunate and cared for the maimed. Where was he when Babe Ruth unleashed death and destruction on the upper Mississippi Valley? Who is going to take up the cause of home-run control? ...
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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Oct. 10. – See the United States Chamber of Commerce has advised Mr. Mellon how to divide up the government’s $400,000,000 surplus. They don’t tell him how to enforce prohibition or any of those hard things, but...
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TORONTO, Ont., Oct. 10. – Had just arrived home after fixing everything up in Europe, when White House spokesman dispatched me to look over Canada and make England following offer for it. ...

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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., May 13. – Did you read where Mellon says “Hoover is the best man, and has the most qualifications for the job of being President?” But he did not want the Pennsylvania delegation instructed for him. He wants to go to Kansas City and wait for the best offer. ...
01:27 PM - May 13, 2023
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RUTLAND, Vt., May 13. – Have just been reading some English papers commenting on Secretary Mellon’s attitude toward the note they sent him about the debts. Fine chance England has of getting the better of Mellon on notes. ...
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LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 12. – Well, big headline today says Barbara is marrying a count, or a duke or something, and we get all excited and start criticizing as though she was a ward of the people.

It’s her money. It’s her life. She must pay a tremendous lot of taxes to our government. ...
09:18 AM - May 12, 2023
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TULSA, Okla., May 12. – Well, here we are, flying out of Tulsa, the first town in America to become a city. This is one of the best and busiest airports in our country. ...
09:17 AM - May 12, 2023
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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., May 12. – They were all just young recruits, told to hold on and they did. Two met death because they had no hand hold, or no chance. The other did have one chance in a million and he took it.

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09:16 AM - May 12, 2023
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WINSLOW, Ariz., May 12. – You folks that think a desert country is terrible should see Arizona and New Mexico now. The whole States are covered with hundreds of the most beautiful kinds of flowers.

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09:15 AM - May 12, 2023
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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., May 12. – See by the papers that every night somebody breaks into Senator Hiram Johnson’s office to try and find something. Well, any time they ever catch a fellow that broke into a Senator’s office, the worst they can ever try him for is petty larceny.

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09:14 AM - May 12, 2023
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 12. – As I paid for this joke, I want to see it in the papers. Right at Baltimore Friday in the big race I bet on four horses, all to win, place and show. Blue Coat was tipped me by Governor Ritchie, who I think was working on commission. One was called the “Nut.”

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09:13 AM - May 12, 2023
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BOSTON, Mass., May 12. – I am the only person in Boston who has not expressed an opinion on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. All I know is that it should not take a nation or a State seven years to decide whether anyone committed a crime or not. ...
09:13 AM - May 12, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 11. – These old boys with a pair of specs and a tablet and pencil can sit and figure out how much wheat, corn and oats can be raised each year in order to sell each bushel of it at a profit. Then along comes a guy called “Elements.” ...
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CHELSEA, Okla., May 11. – Oklahoma never looked prettier.

Haven’t seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.

One of the very next things Mr. Roosevelt is going to do...
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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., May 11. – New York, which always thinks it’s ahead in everything, is going to “walk for beer.” The rest of the country don’t have to walk for it.

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ROSWELL, N. M., May 11. – You have heard of great preparatory schools where they turn out great football talent for the large universities. ...
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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., May 11. – As this is written it’s nearing the end of Mother’s Day. She has ruled the roost today, but we will put her back to work again tomorrow and keep her in her place till this time next year. ...
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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., May 11. – I hate to be the first to make notice of it, but I believe that it is a record. Japan and China have been fighting now for one solid week and we haven’t entered our marines. What’s the matter, are they barred? ...
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BENNINGTON, Vt., May 11. – France is raving at us because the flight was not a success. What did they expect us to do, move New York over near them until it was over? ...
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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., May 10. – Yesterday as I went to press we couldn’t find the Midway Islands; today as I go to print we can’t find the islands or the forty-six airplanes either. Maybe the Japanese hid the islands on ’em.

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10:07 AM - May 10, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 10. – See where President Roosevelt figures on having a free hand in the foreign debt settlement thing personally. That’s fine.

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10:07 AM - May 10, 2023
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CHICAGO, Ill., May 10. – I’ve been looking at the great Chicago World’s Fair which opens two weeks from Saturday. I am the first “rube” to visit it.

I know you will say, what’s it all about and why don’t they pay their teachers? ...
10:06 AM - May 10, 2023
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BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., May 10. – Poor Mr. Mellon is just finding out what an Ambassador’s business to England is. It’s to introduce American mothers’ daughters to the King and Queen.

You ought to hear Charley Dawes tell about his experiences with those ferocious mothers. ...
10:04 AM - May 10, 2023
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CARLSBAD, N. M., May 10. – Celebrating “Mother’s Day” by giving “Ma” Rogers a vacation. Picked her a white desert flower and walked her for seven miles through the celebrated Carlsbad Caverns.

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PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 10. – Just flew down to Pimlico, Maryland, to see the great “Preakness” race. Bucked a head wind but not as strong a one as the horse I bet on bucked. Forty thousand people there, counting Senators and Congressmen.

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