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...according to this view, believing that his own candidacy on a third ticket might improve the chances of McAdoo, Ford withdrew his pretentions and backed Coolidge. It may be; stranger things have happened...
...resplendently in a box at every performance. It is said she has become the proprietress of the company by way of using it as a vehicle for her greatly desired and delayed debut. But Mme. Walska did not sing. The explanation was given that she gracefully withdrew her intention so that the soprano first announced might make her debut. However, it was promised-still by rumor-that at the next performance of the Mozart work she will appear as the Countess...
...floor leader, Nicholas Longworth of Ohio was elected viva voce with only a few scattered "Naes" sounding. Expected opposition from Representative Graham of Illinois did not materialize?the reason being that a compromise had been effected beforehand by which Mr. Graham withdrew and his group, "the Middle Western farmers," received a predominance on the all-important Steering Committee, which dictates what legislation shall come before Congress...
Doth shifts came in the nominations for class poet. M. E. Colby withdrew his name from the list of nominations, and Kenneth Dole, of Melrose, was nominated for poet by petition signed by 25 members of the Senior class...
Assembled at Detroit, the Amateur Athletic Union of the U. S. re-elected William C. Prout of Boston as President. Election was unanimous after Verne Lacey of St. Louis and Murray Hulbert (Acting Mayor of New York City) withdrew from the lists...