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Efficient as Democratic whip in the sessions of the House of Representatives, William A. Oldfield of Arkansas looked out from his Washington window upon the newsdealers and decided to bend the power of publicity to his purposes. Announcement...
...Republicans, unable to obtain exact count of the fugitive circulation of The National Republican which lived strenuously for several years as a weekly, lately changed to a monthly, diagnosed Representative Oldfield as having been infected with the bacillus optimisticus common to all circulation managers...
Divorced. Barney (Bema Eli) Oldfield, onetime racing-car driver, by Mrs. Rebecca Oldfield; in Los Angeles. Charges of desertion and infidelity were uncontested...
...mechanician fell free, damaged but slightly. A few days before, Resta had called Brooklands "the easiest course in the world." After he won the U. S. championship in 1916, and six other big events the same year, Dario Resta had occupied a niche similar to those accorded Barney Oldfield, Ralph Mulford, Ralph De Palma, Eddie Rickenbacker, Harry Grant, Wilcox, Vail and perhaps the Chevrolets-all old-school racers. He was a spectacular driver, daring and popular. He held many records, won the Vanderbilt Cup race twice running (1915 and 1916). He used to drive Peugeots, usually blue...
...Democratic National Committee pointed with pride to the Democratic whip of the House. A whip has the difficult job of rounding up his party's followers and having them on the floor when every important vote is taken. Representative William A. Oldfield, of Arkansas, just entering upon his 16th year in the House, is whip for the Democrats. The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado. In the voting on the tax reduction bill in the House, the Democrats succeeded in substituting the Garner surtax rates for those...