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Howe, on the other hand, is more of the Coady type, being a strong tackler and also a powerful line-backer...
...like Hughes, Hoover and Mellon-men who dealt in generalities which had hardly touched him. He had a few contacts with this group and with the financial group whom he had now to deal with. There was Frank W. Stearns, Boston department-store owner, who had been his backer and adviser. He grappled Stearns to him in this contingency. He renewed an older contact with some of his Amherst classmates and associates-men like Dwight W. Morrow. He had been living in a quite different world from theirs...
...members who will meet all the requirements of membership at the particular moment. One candidate will have to be not only a catholic, but also a Progressive, a free-trader, and a supporter of the open shop. Another vacancy may call for a Protestant, a supporter of Davis, a backer of immigration, limitation, and a firm friend of high protective tariffs...
...Dawes, as head of the commission which drafted the Dawes Report, is a strong buttress, to the Republican ticket. But Mr. Dawes, as the suspeoted backer of Lorimer in his famous swindle, has the double aspect and doubtful value of a political interrogation point...
...Illinois; Dr. George V. Butte, Republican opponent of "Ala" Ferguson for Governor of Texas. GOING. During the past week the following men and women left the U. S. on the following ships: On the Olympic (White Star)-Viscount Wimborne, onetime Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (1915-18), the principal financial backer of the British In- ternational Polo Team. On the Mauretania (Cunard)-Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, wife of the eminent publisher. On the Paris (French)-Reginald C. Vanderbilt, famed clubman; Ring Lardner, professional humorist...