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Republican Senators, ill particular, had many vexing items to dis cuss-not the least of which was the status of Arthur R. Gould, the pride of Aroostook County, Maine. Mr. Gould was the Republican nominee for Senator to succeed the late Senator Bert M. Fernald, and was expected to win the special election last week without a murmur. But, one week before election, noxious charges against him began to pop up. His Democratic opponent, Fulton J. Redman, produced records of a Canadian investigation of 1918 in which Mr. Gould admitted under oath paying $100,000 to one-time Premier...
...Four more minutes were consumed while the Senate met as the Senate to swear in David W. Stewart of Iowa as the successor of the late Senator Albert B. Cummins, and to hear the announcements and condolences of the deaths of Senators Cummins and Bert M. Fernald of Maine...
...Oregon. Bert E. Haney, Democrat, v. Frederick Steiwer, Republican, v. Senator Robert N. Stanfield, Independent. The late entrance of Senator Stanfield, the bad boy of Oregon Republicanism, has injected doubt into the campaign and given Democratic Mr. Haney unexpected hope. Oregon is usually counted safe for regular Republicans...
...Loop department store; Thane as the bellicose Black Bear of the wheat pit-to the virtual exclusion of the minor traits and actions by which an individual emerges from a type. The degeneracy of Daniel Pardway's issue-Gene into "a lout among gentleman, a gentleman among louts;" Bert into a floorwalker and window-dresser; Phoebe into a dreamy sadist, via sex-starvation; Freddie into a Princeton fop, proud wastrel and frayed dope fiend-seems mechanical, arbitrary. Like their father, the reader sees little of these children until it is time for them to appear in bars and brothels...
...Wodehouse, Col. Harjes fell from his pony, crushed his skull beneath flying hoofs. Died. Prince Umberto Ruspoli, brother of the late Prince Enrico Ruspoli, scion of a most ancient and distinguished Roman house; at his estate near Genzano, attacked and shot through the heart by a thief. Died. Senator Bert M. Fernald, 68; at West Poland, Me., of heart disease. Died. Robert Stanley Weir, 69; in Memphremagog, Quebec. Died. Margaret Charlotte Smith Howard, 72, Baroness Strathcona, rich, only child of the first Lord Strathcona, widow of a prominent physician; at her Park Lane home in London. A peeress...