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...influence in the House reports in Washington for the Short Session as a lame duck. When this does happen, it is usually because the Representative has aspired to higher office. Such is the case of the outstanding "lame duck" who will take his seat next week, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic floor-leader. Representative Garrett tried, unsuccessfully, to slip into the seat of Tennessee's Senator McKellar. Representative Tom Connolly, who will slip into the seat of Senator Mayfield after this session, might be called a three-legged duck...
Died. Mary Garrett Hay, 71, famed New York suffragist & prohibition pioneer; of heart disease; in New Rochelle, N. Y. For 30 years she had made her home with her coworker, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt...
...your issue of August 6, on pages 34, 35 and part of 36 is an article concerning mail order champagne. Evidently one Paul Garrett is conducting or has conducted this campaign, as noted on page 34, to relieve the overproduction in the grape industry...
...story of Forgotten Faces was written by Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1921-24) U. S. Ambassador to Italy, and by Oliver Hazard Perry Garrett, onetime crack reporter on the New York World. The above seduction scene causes a gentleman crook named Heliotrope Harry (Clive Brook) to kill the man in the bedroom and have nothing more to do with the woman, his wife. He goes to jail for murder, is released years later. His major problem is to keep his grown-up daughter away from the evil influence of his wife. Success crowns his efforts when both...
...primaries were held in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri. Wiseacres tried to foretell the number of Smith and Hoover votes the three states contain by comparing, this way and that, the democratic and republican votes cast. But only one thing of immediate significance occurred. That was in Tennessee, where Finis James Garrett, for 23 years a member of the House, and since 1923 the House's boss Democrat, tried to get himself nominated for the seat in the Senate which now is occupied by blarney-tongued Kenneth Douglas McKellar. Senator McKellar won. "And that," said other Congressmen, "spells FINISH for Finis...