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...north, art-lovers were flaying Director William Alanson Bryan of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art for discharging Art Curator Harry Muir Kurtzworth, to meet a budget cut. Said Director Bryan: "It ran for years without an art curator and presumably can do so again." Said the Los Angeles Times: ''Even the bones have their vertebrate specialists. Art cannot expect to be taken as seriously...
...Alanson B. Houghton...
...mass meeting for disarmament staged by peace societies of 30 nations in Paris was broken up by nationalists and royalists. Catcalls, whistles, profanity, and shouts of "Down with disarmament!" drowned out the speeches of many eminent foreign delegates to the disarmament conference, including Alanson B. Houghton, former United States ambassador. Only the greatly amplified broadcast of Senator Borah's speech could be heard above the tumult. The admonitions and chidings of Edward Herriot, former premier, were of no avail in the face of discourtesy without parallel...
...Died. Alanson Mellen ("Mellie") Dunham, 78, white-haired fiddler protege of Henry Ford; at Lewiston, Me. Mr. Ford, entranced by Mr. Dunham's rendition of "Turkey in the Straw" & "Boston Fancy," took him to Detroit for one of his old-fashioned parties. A vaudeville tour afterward did not go to his head. Playing on Broadway, he still wore mackinaw, rubber shoes, woolen shirt. In his own district, where there were lots of fiddlers, he was famed for his snowshoes. His proudest boast was that he equipped Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary for snowshoeing to the North Pole...
...avoided plain statement, restricted himself to a philosophic: "Democracy demands at least a majority of competent citizens with orderly habits and balanced, temperate minds. Disaster awaits any people with too high a percentage of the insane, mentally defective, or emotionally unstable. In sanity lies safety." But sharp Dr. William Alanson White, despite his Government job-holding (superintendent, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington), roughly commented: "For Chicago's sake, I hope the most competent of the lunatics is elected. I should say, though, that really the antics and illogical, name-calling speeches of the candidates are a comment upon the mental...