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...injured list today Garrow Geer and Frank Casale have joined Captain Herman Gundlach and Charley Kessler, but the entire quartet will be ready for action tomorrow. Shaun Kelly and Bill Watt have also retired temporarily, the former going up to Stillman because of an abscess. Fred Moseley is reported as all right but didn't get into the scrimmage yesterday...
Last year when Nebraska's Senator Howell died, Governor Charles W. Bryan, brother of William Jennings, defied Boss Mullen, and named his own man, William Henry Thompson, to the job. Since then Governor Bryan and the New Deal have grown progressively apart. Last April, "Brother Charley" announced his candidacy for the Senate against Representative Burke, tried to outdeal the New Deal in his radical campaign. Against him was thrown all the weight of the Roosevelt Administration...
Stoop-shouldered, scholarly, homely "Charley" Ross had been chief of the Post-Dispatch's Washington bureau since 1918. Graduating from the University of Missouri in 1905, he worked for three years on various newspapers including the Post-Dispatch, then taught copy reading and editorial writing in the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri from 1908 to 1918. In 1916 he took a year off, went to Australia, worked on the Melbourne Herald. In Washington no correspondent was more respected by his colleagues than Ross. In 1931 that respect became almost reverential awe when he won a Pulitzer...
...take a bow. He holds that every judge, before he takes office, should have at least five years experience as a poker player, to get an insight into human nature. Last autumn he wrote a letter to a newspaper declaring that he enjoyed seeing the execution of Negro Charley Dumas, convicted of raping and mutilating white girls. When some citizens protested his gushy enjoyment, Judge Gassaway reviewed the case from the bench, cited the heinous nature of the crime, the fact that he was himself the father of four daughters. He wound up by announcing that there was "something wrong...
Even more exciting than the games in the National League this year have been disturbances of the sort that usually arise from the tension of a close race. Last month the Cardinals' Manager Frankie Frisch exchanged words and blows with portly Umpire Charley Rigler during a game against Chicago. League authorities fined both $100, first time in recent years that an umpire has been so disciplined. A week earlier, the first individual strike in baseball history took place when Pitcher Dizzy Dean refused to play unless the club upped Brother Paul's salary from...