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Primaries proceed apace. The great adventure last week was the Wisconsin Democratic primary. There Governor Al Smith of New York took victory away from William G. McAdoo. It was Mr. McAdoo's first serious set-back in a primary vote. Governor Smith had made no purposeful campaign, and pointed out that he had never had official notification that his name was entered. But Smith had the reputation of being a Wet; McAdoo is a well known Dry; and Milwaukee is famous...
...Al Jennings, former train robber, ex-evangelist, onetime politician and lately realtor of Venice, Calif., testified that he had had conversations with the late Jake Hamon, Republican National Committeeman from Oklahoma, in which Hamon had said: 1) that he bought the nomination of Harding in 1920 for $1,000,000; 2) that the late Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania had received $250,000; 3) that Will Hays, Harry Daugherty and another man had each had $25,000; 4) that the New York delegation had been "very expensive"; 5) that Hamon had expected to become Secretary of the Interior and that...
...large canvas of two pugilists, a black and a white, in a particularly intense moment of action. There is Robert Henri's sombre portrait of Miss Battalo Rubino. There are also works by John Sloan, President of the Society, Arthur Lee, winner of the Pennsylvania Academy gold medal, Al Frueh, cartoonist of The New York World, William Glackens, Allen Tucker, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. These represent the established artists who set the character of the show...
There are all these disadvantages money, rot, the "many headed beast", dirty politics et al. Yet in the end the career is one that still remains some what individualistic. Mr. Waterson on resigning from the "Courier Journal" became "Editor Emeritus" because due to his predecessor's and his own efforts and personalities the paper had become as much an institution as any university...
Married. Mr. (Edward S.) Gallagher to Miss Ann Luther, cinema actress, at Greenwich, Conn. Mr. (Al) Shean was best...