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...plan has long been afoot to move the Senate chamber 40 feet north, so that it could have windows. Now, flanked by corridors and offices in the heart of the Senate wing of the Capitol, its ventilation is indirect save through flat, inadequate skylights...
...California delegates, headed by Mr. McAdoo, had declared for him and wanted to enter his name in their primary. Said he: "I was importuned some time ago to allow my name to be used and I simply said I would not veto it." News followed that Walsh movements were afoot also in Wisconsin and South Dakota. Said Mr. Walsh: "I have no campaign plans and no thought of quitting my duties here [in Washington] to promote my candidacy, if such it may be called. If my services to the party have been such as to entitle me to consideration...
...been hired by Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair to shadow the jury chosen to try Sinclair for criminal conspiracy with Albert Bacon Fall, Harding Cabinet man. Father Burns said he knew nothing about it. When the Washington Herald (Hearst) discovered, and the Department of Justice announced, the shady work afoot (TIME, Nov. 14), it was news to Father Burns-said Father Burns...
...labor unions, last week estimated that throughout the U. S. 4,000,000 persons lacked work. One-third (250,000) of the soft coal miners of the country had no jobs. "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, who in 1894 led Coxey's workless "Army of the Commonweal of Christ" afoot from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, last week at Manhattan said that on a tour from Boston to Minneapolis since last June he had found "25% of the factories idle in the territory covered." He is considered a reliable, although theatrical, observer...
...which Publisher Hearst paid $20,000, to be inept forgeries. The evidence pointed toward the Hearst agent, Miguel Avila, as one of the forgers, though this was not proved. Publisher Hearst protested his own innocence, agreed he had been bamboozled but again insisted a bribery plot had been afoot. This time the Senators ignored Publisher Hearst...