Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pattangall, Maine Democrat, onetime (1920-28) member of the Democratic National Committee. Reason: Prohibition. Irving H. Mezger, Baltimore Democrat, attorney. Reason: "These [Smith's] are not the tactics of an old-line Democrat." Mr. Mezger promised to form a local anti-Smith organization among "old-line" Democrats. Nathan Newby, James 0. Davis, Mrs. Katherine Braddock and Mrs. James Ellis Tucker, California (McAdoo) Democrats. Reasons: Prohibition, Tammany. Vance McCormick, chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee in 1916. Reason, as revealed in the McCormick-owned Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot: "to disregard the Constitution ... is destined to lead to anarchy and chaos...
...Hohenthal departed on the Mauretania, weighted down by the titles of his high offices: Secretary of the European International Reform Association; European Commissioner of the World Prohibition Federation. His -presence in the U. S., he declared, is no longer needed. Reason: the U. S. is thoroughly dry. George Jean Nathan, dramatic critic (Judge, The American Mercury), came down the gangplank of the Aquitania with a message: "All over France I found Pilsener at 12½ ?a glass, and ice cold, too." Capt. Robert Dollar, 84-year-old President of the Dollar Steamship Co. (San Francisco), reached New York...
Married. Marian Miller, daughter of onetime (1921-23) Governor Nathan...
...Hicksville, N. Y., last fortnight, Nathan L. Miller, onetime Governor of New York, famed attorney for the U. S. Steel Corp., successfully defended a butler for shooting a monkey (TIME, July...
...trial, which was attended by many persons of large fortune and social inclinations, onetime Governor Miller denounced the monkey and eloquently praised the menial who had murdered him. "Monkeys are wild animals," remarked Nathan Miller, "no game laws protect them, their bites are dangerous and the late King Alexander of Greece died from the effects of being bitten by an ape. This charge is ridiculous. It would be a fine country if property could be invaded by wild animals without any opportunity being provided to stop them...