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Woollen. Thomas Taggart, boss Democrat of Indiana, likes to take his delegates to the national conventions lined up behind one Indianian whom they more or less seriously advance for nomination. Later he swings their votes in line behind some other section's candidate. But there is always the chance that the Indiana man will be one of the men and bring glory to Indiana and Boss Taggart...
Married. Mrs. Izetta Jewell Brown, who made the seconding speech in the nominating for President of the U. S. Democrat John W. Davis in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, in 1924; to Dean Hugh Miller, of Union College; in Washington, in a friend's walled garden...
Chinese first heard of Wang when he attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate the Manchu Prince Regent in 1907, and barely escaped abroad with his own life. That attempt stamps Wang as a democrat and a patriot in Chinese eyes...
...portly one that he had been found innocent of high improprieties. The margin of innocence was two votes. A majority of the Senators voted guilty but two-thirds were needed to convict. The portly one was Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie, against whom the weekly Post-Democrat of his home town had loudly protested for alleged jury-packing and interference with freedom of the press (TIME, April...
Editor George R. Dale of the Post-Democrat fared worse. A fugitive from indictment for criminally libeling Judge Dearth, by saying that His Honor's maladministration of justice was morally responsible for a pair of murders, Editor Dale had been abiding across the state line, in Ohio. But last week his daughter fell ill. He went home, was jailed. A synopsis of future chapters in Indiana's biggest excitement in months, at the bottom of which lies war between the friends and foes of Prohibition, will doubtless include further encounters between an outrageously outspoken journalist and a spokesman...