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Hague: "We're giving the people . . . real government, conscientious government." (Pointing to Tobey and addressing Senator Alva Adams): "What's he frothing at the mouth about...
...tell what he knew about the partridge dances in neighboring Hudson County, where Democratic Committee Vice Chairman Frank Hague is boss of the bush. The Committee's valiant Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey watched and listened, with blunderbuss at the ready. Beside him sat his colleague, Senator Alva Adams, little, solid and Democratic, who would rather be off hunting in Republican-controlled South Jersey counties...
...this to-do dated from last June, when a dozen petulant Indians stormed into the front office of the Cleveland club, wailed that Manager Oscar Vitt's scoldings got on their nerves, asked President Alva Bradley to fire him. Instead of spanking them, President Bradley coddled his pets, asked them please to grin & bear it for the rest of the season...
Cried Colorado's Senator Alva Adams, chairman of a Senate appropriations subcommittee: "We are dealing here one day with 375,000 [men in the Army], and the next day with 750,000, and then 1,200,000 and then 2,000,000 and then 4,000,000." There may be still more changes-for the laudable reason that the Army is trying to profit by the lessons of this...
Head of prosperous Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (batteries, electrical recorders, etc.) in New Jersey is Thomas Alva Edison's unassuming son, Charles Edison. Having resigned as Secretary of the Navy to be the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey, Charles Edison last week took a forthright step. He had a notice posted in his plants...