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Taber and Knutson had been merely obstructionists when their party was in the minority. Would responsibility sober them up? These were things for Joe Martin to worry about. But Joe does not worry much. He knows how to handle his colleagues. He also knows that he will have some excellent committee chairmen (Jesse Wolcott of Michigan, Charles Eaton of New Jersey, et a/.) and that he will have some good new blood in the House. One of the freshmen, Connecticut's John Davis Lodge, put the problem of the Republicans...
...bring about the reunion, the Quakers had set up a joint body-the Philadelphia General Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends-and invited Quakers from far & near to attend. The Hicksites' red brick, wide-eaved meetinghouse was filled, to near capacity (1,400) with sober Friends. On its cushioned brown benches they "centered down" before each session in the vibrant silence characteristic of Quaker worship...
...citizenship, and settled in the Territory of Florida. He drank steadily until his death at 46, speculated heavily, sired a number of mulatto Murats, married a great-grandniece of George Washington. Usually embarrassed for funds, he was once arrested on a charge of cattle stealing. But he was also sober citizen enough to be admitted to the Florida bar and to dabble in Florida politics...
Last week, for the third time in fourscore years, the Star got a new editor. For the first time, he was not a Noyes-but sober, cautious Benjamin Mosby McKelway, 51, was unmistakably one of Noyes's boys...
This description of U.S. state mental hospitals last week came from no muckraker but from a speaker before the sober, conservative National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Mental health officials, gathered in Manhattan at the committee's annual meeting, agreed with this indictment by Mrs. Edith M. Stern, a writer on psychiatric problems. Cried Maryland's Mental Hygiene Commissioner George...