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...Michigan has been a faith fully Republican district since 1898 when Joseph Warren ("Old Joe") Fordney, co author of the 1922 Tariff Act, took it away from Ferdinand Brucker, Demo cratic father of Michigan's present Repub lican Governor. Year ago the late Bird J. Vincent, thin, greyish Republican Representative, defeated a big, blond, slow-moving Democrat named Michael J. ("Mike") Hart by 20,000 votes. This year Mr. Hart, a bean jobber of Saginaw who runs an 800-acre farm, was again nominated, this time against Republican Foss O. Eldred of Ionia. Nominee Hart declared Wet, had the support...
...prim and mannerly 12-year-old daughter Elizabeth Ann whom she presented to the world in her book, The President's Daughter (1927) as the bastard of President Harding, conceived in the Senate Office Building. In 1928 one Joseph de Barthe. now dead, wrote and published a thin little book entitled The Answer to "The President's Daughter" in which he defended President Harding's good name, denied that the President was biologically able to achieve paternity, depicted Miss Britton as an unscrupulous impostor with a bad character. Round-faced, smiling Charles Augustus Klunk, 53, old Harding...
...strangest paintings ever to win a first prize," said the Chicago Daily News. "It is an amusing creation but seems a trifle thin to have been so greatly honored," commented the Tribune...
...came under the notice of Grant. When Grant was put in command of the Army of the Potomac he sent for Sheridan. President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton looked hard at him, were not very impressed with what they saw: Sheridan was short (5 ft. 5 in.), "painfully thin" (115 lb.). In spite of his personal bravery he had the reputation of being a cautious commander. "He never, finally, lost a battle. He was careful-he had been long and carefully trained- rather than brilliant...
...Genius (Warner) differs from Svengali in the fact that John Barrymore's protégé is this time a dancer instead of a singer and a young man instead of a young woman. Barrymore also uses a slightly different make-up-a thin mustache, straggling goatee and a clamp on his left leg, to make him clubfooted. Unable to be a dancer himself, he becomes an impresario hypnotized by ambition to make an expert dancer out of someone else. Presently he finds a suitable subject -a young man with a Slav countenance and an impetuous disposition (Donald Cook...