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...field of 16, Republicans chose William Abraham Schnader, State's Attorney General, as their favorite gubernatorial candidate. In the hottest primary contest, Senator David Aiken Reed, Old Guardsman seeking renomination, beat (587,000-to-483,000) Governor Gifford Pinchot, oldtime Republican insurgent...
...still encircled the necks and hips of crumbling skeletons with tightly bent legs. Up two long flights of steps carved by sweating natives in the clay walls of the pit were carried 770 vessels of alabaster, gypsum, limestone, diorite. and some of copper, all buried long before the Patriarch Abraham trod the same soil...
...others: Colonel Greenway of Arizona, Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, Zebulon B. Vance of North Carolina, all in Statuary Hall in the Capitol; Abraham Lincoln in the Capitol Rotunda: General Phil Sheridan in Sheridan Circle...
...Ruby Laffoon, two guardsmen were placed on patrol duty between the executive mansion and the State Capitol at Frankfort. Said Governor Laffoon : "If I get a few minutes notice before anyone starts shooting. I'll outrun any of them in spite of my game leg."* In Manhattan Bibliophile Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach paid $10,100 for the small, precise squiggle of Georgia's Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence, affixed in witness of a farmer's will. In 1927 Bibliophile Rosenbach bid higher than any man had ever before bid on a single piece...
...lonely hill had become La Turbie, near Monte Carlo, where a rich Yankee expatriate spends his winters. Square-shouldered, withered little Edward Tuck, 92, went to Paris 70 years ago as Abraham Lincoln's vice consul and, except for a few early years of shuttling back & forth to the U. S., stayed on in France. He made his fortune as a private banker, built it up by investments in U. S. banks (Chase), railroads (Great Northern, Northern Pacific) and public utilities. He has given France a $5,000,000 art collection, a hospital, Napoleon's Park at Malmaison...