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...Senators sat agape. Observed West Virginia's Chapman Revercomb: "This is the most unusual qualification I have ever heard advanced for the appointment of a federal judge-to appoint him because he is irksome to the Administration." Said Harold Ickes...
Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews explained what it takes to make a man an explorer: "He's got to be completely miserable when he's not exploring...
Hard to Market. In 1923, a U.S. engineer named M. F. Chapman brought eleven chinchillas to California where they became the progenitors of practically all U.S. chinchillas. They proved not excessively hard to raise. They live on cheap vegetables rather than expensive meat. Unlike mink, they do not tear one another to bits. They have no unpleasant odor nor do they bite the hand that feeds them. In their wild state, the males are monogamous; but on the fur ranch, they can be persuaded into polygamy. A female can produce three annual litters of one to five offspring...
...President, will the Senator yield?" is the most frequently heard question on the Senate floor. Despite its familiarity, West Virginia's droning Chapman Revercomb faltered in mid-speech when he heard it one day last week. The polite parliamentary request came from a citizen in a rear gallery...
Died. Carrie Chapman Catt, 88, militant matriarch of world feminists, successor to the late Susan B. Anthony as leader of the fight for U.S. women's suffrage, founder of the National League of Women Voters; in New Rochelle, N.Y. After the suffragettes' 1920 victory (the 19th Amendment), she looked around for new arenas, crusaded vigorously for world peace, meanwhile kept a sharp eye on women's rights at home & abroad...