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...appearance he is taller than his Ohio colleague, short Senator Simeon Davison Fess, or his No. 1 political sponsor, medium-sized Postmaster General Brown. A wide mouth, strong nose, sharp eyes under wrinkly brows, a fine head of wavy dark hair touched with grey combine to give him a certain cinematic handsomeness. In dress he is quiet, neat, careful about his neckties...
...Republican split against Nominee Pinchot continued to widen when 47 of Philadelphia's 48 G. O. P. ward leaders came out for Nominee Hemphill. In Pittsburgh 25 potent businessmen, including Board Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., President George Stewart Davison of Gulf Refining Co. and President Arthur Luther Humphrey of Westinghouse Air Brake Co., joined political forces with Board Chairman Samuel Mathews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia to defeat Nominee Pinchot...
Dropping four members of his Cabinet, the President boarded his special train, started West. G. O. P. Chairman Simeon Davison Fess was ordered back to Washington lest his presence give the President's trip the appearance of a political junket. Postmaster General Brown, however, was permitted to go along. Outside Altoona the train was run off on a siding at Mule Shoe Bend, high among the mountains. Ties were lashed to the tracks to keep it from rolling; switches were spiked; the President slept seven quiet hours...
...John Davison Rockefeller, 91, went a golf challenge from Judge H. C. Ward, 80, of Sterling, Ill. Judge Ward dared because last week he made a hole-in-one at Rock River...
...Today that power is everywhere threatened-not by persecution, but by indifference. In the most unchurched of educated communities in an increasingly unchurchlike world, Dr. Fosdick has caused to be raised on the banks of the magnificent Hudson a magnificent church. To voice its presence to surrounding multitudes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. has set in its tower 72 bells, world's largest and heaviest carillon. (The Park Avenue Baptist, predecessor of Riverside Church, had only 53.) Their invitation Dr. Fosdick expressed in a great exordium...