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...Agriculture's member of the Federal Reserve Board, vice Edward Henry Cunningham, deceased. The new man is big, husky, talkative Wayland W. Magee, 49, of Bennington. Mr. Magee did not have Senator Norris' endorsement, but he had the next best thing, the endorsement of Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska. Senator Norris' close political crony. Others who urged his appointment included Senator Carey of Wyoming, Samuel McKelvie of the Federal Farm Board, Governor Willis J. Bailey of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, and many an agricultural college president. Mr. Magee, who runs a two-section farm...
...AYMER J. BEECHER New Haven, Conn...
Died. George Henry Hathaway, 86, president since 1903 of Redpath Lyceum Bureau Inc., one of the oldest chautauqua bureaus; after a fall last fortnight; in Boston, Mass. He booked as lecturers Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, Humorist Mark Twain, Preacher Henry Ward Beecher; Singers Liza Lehmann and Lillian Nordica...
...Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska, an Annapolis graduate who went into civil engineering, drifted into politics as a Norris man, disagrees with the Insurgents on naval reduction...
...greatest fights have been against the 18th Amendment (though he is crusading Dry), the 18th Amendment, the Child Labor Amendment, the League of Nations. Charles Beecher Warren as Attorney General, Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Constructively he worked for the Income Tax Amendment, the creation of the Department of Labor, the Kellogg Peace Treaty, the direct election of Senators...