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...Dayton (Ohio) Herald. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Paisley Burtch of Clarinda, Iowa and settled in Nebraska. She gave him one son, Findley-for the past five years financial adviser to Salvador-and two daughters. He edited the Papillion (Xeb.) Times. In 1891 he was already full of Democratic sentiments: William Jennings Bryan made him his secretary, took him to Washington (paying his expenses, but no salary). This position lasted but a few-months. Howard returned to Papillion, entered politics. Only straight Democrat running against the American Protective Association, Populist ("Demopop") and Republican candidates, he was elected to the State...
...Democratic Representative John Mor?gan Evans, 67, Dry, held a very narrow lead for renomination over John Patrick Monaghan, 25, Wet, in the First Congressional District. Renominated in the Second Congressional District was Re- publican Representative Scott Leavitt who will face Tom Stout, Democrat, in the November election...
...Democrat Byrns, afire with political zeal, added to the agreed total of 1931 appropriations $51,000,000 for future payment of War claims, and $199,310,597.12 appropriated in the first or special session of this Congress for farm relief and back postal pay to railroads, arriving at a total of $5,124,239,830.28. This sum, he argued, exceeded last year's appropriations by $459,003,062.24. He made much of the fact that White House appropriations under President Hoover had jumped $91,840 from the $43 7, 1 80 President Coolidge got along with. Said he : "Even...
...Secret Documents." President Hoover's message on the Treaty had hardly been read before Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, Democrat, was on his feet with a resolution requesting the President to submit to the Senate "all letters, cablegrams, minutes, memoranda, instructions, despatches, records, files and other information" relative to the Treaty. This question of "Secret Documents" had already been thrashed out between the anti-Treaty members of the Foreign Relations Committee and the President, who had explained the papers desired and withheld were not solely U. S. property but belonged also to the other countries negotiating (TIME, June...
...Important members of the N. A. M.: General Electric Co., International Harvester Co., Packard Motor Car Co. Mr. Edgerton is also president of the Lebanon (Tenn.) Woolen Mills, trustee of Vanderbilt University, trustee of Martin College (Pulaski, Tenn.), a Democrat, a Kiwanian, a Rotarian, a Southern Methodist...