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...congratulations," cabled Kaye Don, who last fortnight acquired a U. S. bride but lost the backing of his patron, Charles Cheers Wakefield, Lord Wakefield. Chairman of C. C. Wakefield & Co. Ltd. (lubricants), the aging Lord has for years subsidized Britons speeding by air, land and sea. Far-hopping James Allan Mollison and the late Sir Henry Segrave were his proteges. Now he thinks the publicity not worth the outlay...
Votes. The late Eugene Victor Debs first appeared as the Socialist candidate for President in 1900. That year he got 94,864 votes. In 1904 he got 402,895; in 1908, 420,890; in 1912, 901,873. Allan Benson, carrying the Socialist banner in 1916, polled only 585,113. In 1920 Debs, then a prisoner in the Atlanta Federal penitentiary for violating the Espionage Act, made his fifth run for the Presidency, rolled up the surprising total of 919,799 votes. Four years later the Socialist party threw its lot in with Senator Robert Marion La Follette whose independent presidential...
...Petit Palais in Paris, a representative exhibition of his work marked the centenary of his birth. Born in Strasbourg, he never took drawing lessons, made fair pictures at 6, relying on an amazing photographic memory. From his versatile illustrations for Rabelais. Dante. Cervantes, Ariosto, La Fontaine, Dumas. Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, et al., he earned in 35 years of work the prodigious total of seven million francs (nearly $1,500,000 at that time...
Married. Aviatrix Amy Johnson, 24 (England to Australia 19 days); and Aviator James Allan Mollison, 26 (Australia to England 8 days, 21 hr.); in London...
...many a familiar G. O. Politician away from Chicago. Senators Borah. Watson and Smoot, prime figures at Kansas City in 1928, were absent. Andrew William Mellon was at his London post. Claudius Huston who led the Hoover "Boy Scouts" four years ago> could not be found around the Stadium. Allan Hoover, a spectator at his father's first nomination, missed his renomination...