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...Clinton W. ("Mirror") Gilbert and Mark Sullivan, cheered loudly for Senator George. At 44, he was a distinguished lawyer, brilliant orator, a rather impressive figure on the Senate floor. He was no bombaster of the Tom Heflin school, no ranting humorist of the Pat Harrison species. His popularity grew; people began to say that the South was having a political renaissance, that soon the John Calhouns and the Henry Clays would again sway the Senate...
...boys grew older. Destiny, famed goddess, began to play her tricks. Little Malcolm became a civil engineer. In 1924 he horrified good Democrats, supported the Presidential campaign of Robert M. LaFollette the Elder. Last week, at the ripe age of 61, he married Miss Mildred M. Traut, daughter of a Portsmouth, Va. lumber merchant, The wedding ceremony was performed by a Manhattan city clerk in the chapel of the Municipal Building...
...World had actually been drafted by the venerable Archbishop of Mexico, the Very Reverend Jose Mora y del Rio. The Times contended that the real author was the Archbishop's vigorous field generalissimo, Bishop Diaz. The World repudiated this aspersion with indignation. Readers of both newspapers grew weary of the controversy. Finally a rumor, subsequently squelched, spread that the Archbishop would be prosecuted for sedition on account of the interview and might even be executed. The World's correspondent, Mr. Arthur Constantine, then proudly cinched his interview by obtaining from the 72-year-old prelate two huskily whispered...
...recent weeks the stock market has been cavorting like a grain-fed horse. Last week it grew weary.- That is, many stocks which were at their record highs last February and which toppled in March, recovered, then broke slightly. (The March break brought the whole Manhattan Stock Exchange listings down an average of 30 points.) This table shows the extent of some recoveries: SPRING RECENT...
...commonplace has suddenly, with sublime and innocent vulgarity, comic pedantry, unflagging ebullience, gone stark, raving romantic. Here is one book, at least, for which Autumn, 1926, is destined to be memorable. The Author, born in Bay City, Mich., 33 years ago, has been a newspaperman ever since he grew up. Detroit, St. Louis, and more lately Baltimore...