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...past four years in the hilly little town of Marion (pop.: 4,156) in south-west Virginia, shaggy Sherwood Anderson, author of A Story Teller's Story, Many Marriages, The Triumph of the Egg, has been publishing two thriving weekly papers, the Marion Democrat and the Smyth County News (Republican). Editor and business manager of the papers has been Author Anderson's redhaired, 24-year-old son Robert Lane ("Bob") Anderson. Last week, a fortnight after his marriage to Mary Leigh Chryst, an English instructor in Marion Junior College, Son Robert bought control of the weeklies from Father...
Fortnight ago President Hoover picked his first Geneva delegate?Senator Claude Augustus Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee. A neophyte at international conferences, a Big Navy advocate, Senator Swanson, with his stringy mustache, corded eyeglasses and rather pompous airs, accepted because he does not have to work for re-election until 1934. Thus starting at the bottom of his delegation, President Hoover last week worked backwards to the top, appointed three more members...
...Democrat Baker has been genuinely reluctant to help his friends along with a presidential campaign in his behalf. He has so far refused to sign the necessary papers which would put his name into the Ohio primary. He looked the other way when Martin L. Davey, onetime Congressman, circularized 40,000 Ohio Democrats on the subject of Baker-for-President. But last week he responded to a friendly editorial in Sanford Martin's Winston-Salem (N. C.) Journal-Sentinel, thus...
...patient Democrat is Publisher William Randolph Hearst. His nationalist temper already at the boiling point over War Debts and the Moratorium, he spread on his front pages all over the land one day last week a bitter, biting, double-column editorial on "Hee! Haw! We're coming back!" Excerpts...
...selection of Chicago as next year's Republican convention city smacked of a public auction. When Philadelphia. Detroit, St. Louis, and Cleveland withdrew for lack of bidding cash. Atlantic City alone contested the sale. From Chicago had come a citizens delegation headed by Democrat Edward Nash Hurley, Wartime chairman of the Shipping Board, and Col. Robert Isham ("Secret Six") Randolph of the Chicago Association of Commerce. They offered the G. O. P. the city's new indoor Stadium for its meetings, promised reduced railroad fares and moderate hotel rates. Of most importance, they waved a certified check...