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...Representatives where with one interruption he served for a dozen years. He learned political strategy under Speaker Joseph Gurney (''Uncle Joe'') Cannon who made him a trusted henchman. In 1908 he stepped out of the House to be beaten for the Indiana governorship by Thomas Riley Marshall, later Democratic vice president. Politically jobless, he reverted to law, became a lobbyist for the American Manufacturers Association. In 1913 the House investigators of the A. M. A. lobby publicly flayed him for capitalizing on his personal Congressional contacts. Laughing off a scandal which would have buried a less...
Manager v. Swinger. California has had no Democratic Senator since James Duval Phelan's term expired in 1921. On the Aug. 30 primary ballot are six names: Parson M. Abbott, Maurice James McCarthy, Annie Riley Hale, Robert Pierce Shuler, Justus S. Wardell, William Gibbs McAdoo. Abbott and McCarthy are irreconcilable supporters of Alfred Emanuel Smith who still think this is 1928. The candidacy of Mrs. Hale (Colyumist Heywood Broun's mother-in-law) is not taken seriously. ''Bob" Shuler, a radio revivalist, is a political maverick who is also running in the Republican primary. The real race appeared...
...played for years on Broadway. One of the founders of the Actors' Equity Association, he was an early member of the Lambs' Club and the Catholic Actors' Guild of America. His first wife, Alice Evans, died in 1919. In 1928 he secretly married Kathryn Alberta Riley, 37, who had nursed him back to health. In 1920 Lackaye paid a visit to John J. McGraw, during which it was claimed he insulted Baseballer McGraw. Lockaye said that McGraw put out his right hand in friendship, then struck him on the jaw with his left. After the fracas Lackaye...
...They were not present in Columbus last week, but the following were : Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of the late Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst. Said she-"The world crisis is pointing to nearness of His coming because it fulfills closely His prediction of a crisis to precede His coming." William Bell Riley, 71, executive secretary and co-founder of the Fundamentals Association. Patriarchal, resonant, he has debated many a time on Evolution. Proud is he that Clarence Darrow backed down" when he offered him $500 to debate in Denver. Rev. Louis Entzminger of Fort Worth, Tex "Sunday School Expert.' Large, eagle-beaked...
...Leventritt '35, F. C. Lowell ocC., M. F. McKesson '34, F. D. Moore '35, H. J. Moss 1G., E. L. Olsson 1G., J. H. Packard '34, Knight Prophett 1G., J. C. Ransmeier '33, Lawrence Rasmussen 1G., E. H. Rigg '34, R. L. Riley '33, E. J. Rogers '34, H. W. Rubin '35, R. D. Sard...