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While this was going on Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate lobby committee, sent Bishop Cannon an impatient telegram to appear this week before the committee. He must explain, among other things, where he got the money for his stock market operations...
...taking command in the U. S. (1904). Herbert Hoover sent her greetings. Lou Henry Hoover sent an armful of roses. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York regretted that he could not attend the celebrations but his wife presided at one of the meetings. Mrs. Coolidge sent a telegram. So did Viscountess Astor of England and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois. Henry Waters Taft, head of the Army's New York City Advisory Board, helped Commander Booth dedicate a new building in Manhattan, the Centennial Memorial Temple, costing $2,500,000. Financial Broadway cast ticker tape...
What the Lobby Committee sought particular light on was the apparent discrepancy of $48,000 between the $65,300 Mr. Jameson reported giving Bishop Cannon and the $17,300 Bishop Cannon reported receiving from Mr. Jameson. The answer seemed to lie in a telegram sent Mr. Jameson by Bishop Cannon after the Campaign when Congress was calling for final expenditure reports: AFTER CAREFUL EXAMINATION RECORDS THINK STATEMENT SHOULD BE QUOTE PAID HEADQUARTERS COMMITTEE ANTI-SMITH DEMOCRATS $17,300; PAID VIRGINIA COMMITTEE ANTI-SMITH DEMOCRATS $48,000 UNQUOTE...
...President). Edward of Wales, attending another London banquet of last week, at the Carlton Club in honor of this year's Walter Hines Page Fellows (Robert Paine Scripps of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Editor Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution, Publisher Stuart Hoffman Perry of the Adrian [Mich.] Telegram), had a good time but made no speech...
Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones, old-time labor crusader (TIME, May 5), received a congratulatory telegram on her 100th birthday from capitalist John Davison Rockefeller Jr., for picketing whose family's Colorado mines she was sent to jail 16 years ago. The message: ". . . your loyalty to your ideals, your fearless adherence to your duty as you have seen it, is an inspiration to all who have known you. . . ." Said she: "He's a damn good sport! I've licked him many times, but now we've made peace...