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...Blease, Georgia's Watson, Louisiana's Long, Mississippi's Vardaman. Mississippi, where Jefferson Davis lived, where the illiteracy rate is fourth highest in the U. S., where poverty is said to have driven "all the good niggers'' over into Alabama, last week fairly outdid itself in the matter of picking a U.S. Senator. In the Democratic run-off primary a sizable majority of that State's electorate preferred Theodore Gilmore Bilbo to all comers...
...Amalgamated, and one fact: smart Amalgamated members were far from confident of winning a strike. At most they claimed only 100,000 members out of 430,000 steel employes. Not famed for energy or decisiveness, President Green went before the 188 Amalgamated delegates in the Elks' Auditorium and outdid himself. Said he: "I come as a miner speaking to steel workers. ... I know what it is to go starving, what it is to go through 18 months of strike and to taste the bitter dregs of defeat. "I don't want you to risk a conflict when...
...Toscanini gave for his season's farewell in Manhattan last week left everyone groping for non-existent superlatives. Many a conservative New Yorker pronounced it the greatest concert within memory, credited its success not only to the little Italian conductor but also to Soprano Gertrude Kappel who majestically outdid herself as Brünnhilde in the Immolation scene from Götterdümmerung...
When senior year came last autumn his world outdid itself to honor him. The faculty which had already made him a Senior Fellow, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key. Sportswriters named him on All-Eastern football teams. Varsity swimmers and trackmen chose him captain. His Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers made him their president. His classmates, who had already elected him their president, put him in the presidency of their honor society, Casque & Gauntlet. Dartmouth at large chose him to head the student governing body. When he went up before a Rhodes Scholarship committee last autumn, it saw at once...
When plump young Ronald Tucker Finney, prize bond broker of Emporia, Kans., was spending money few men in Kansas outdid him. He owned two Arabian thoroughbreds, a Bellanca monoplane, a fleet of automobiles, a Wild West show (101 Ranch), a floodlighted tennis court. When he was arrested for forging nearly $1,000,000 worth of municipal bonds (TIME, Aug. 21) he precipitated a scandal such as few Kansans have ever begotten. But when his father, Warren Wesley Finney, bank president and pillar of Emporia society, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to from 36 to 600 years in jail (TIME...