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Those who challenged the jurisdiction of Senator Reed and his Campaign Expenditures Committee, and who may have to answer to the Senate on charges of contempt of court, are: Samuel Insull, public utility archangel, who admitted giving $183,000 to successful candidate Frank L. Smith and to other friends and factions; Edward H. Wright, Chicago Negro boss, who is the Second Ward; States Attorney Robert E. Crowe, prosecutor of famed Loeb and Leopold, now the leader of the Crowe-Barrett gang; Daniel J. Schuyler, attorney for Mr. Insull; Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, who openly defied the committee in behalf...
...Republican primaries by Col. Frank L. Smith, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission. Mr. Insull acknowledged giving $125,000 to Col. Smith. Then, no piker, he had further promoted his antiWorld Court campaign by contributing smaller sums to the Deneen faction supporting Senator McKinley against Col. Smith. Finally, archangel, Mr. Insull, had helped even the Democrats by slipping $15,000 to his old friend George E. "Boss" Brennan of Chicago, who as Democratic nominee opposed both Col. Smith and Senator McKinley. Said Senator Reed: "This utility giver is apparently out to land on both feet." During the week corroborating evidence...
...thing we cannot help but admire. So many, many moving picture actresses, even in these days of good direction, curb their dramatic potentialities by refusing ever to look ugly. We could name half a dozen who continually appear, with the aid of trick photography, as something between an archangel and an artist's model. But, in the long run, tooth enamel, and spot-lights below one's double chin, will never take the place of a desire...
Another major decision of the Council was to abolish dual commandership in the Army. Hitherto, each com-mander had attached to him a political commissar, or "archangel," as Comrade Krylenko, onetime Chief Com-mander of the Russian forces, called them. An order of a commander was invalid until countersigned by the commissar ; but such is the state of things in Russia that the Moscow autocrats can now trust their officers and are, incidently, enabled to raise their...
...Russo-German negotiations during the winter of 1917-18 that culminated in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of March 1918, and he describes briefly the reorganization of Russia under the Soviet regime. He then outlines the various attempts at counter revolution and foreign intervention such as the Archangel expedition, the struggles in Siberia of the Czecho-Slovaks, Kolchak, and Semenov, and the intervention of Japanese and American troops, as well as the attacks of Denikine, Wranged, and Yudenitch. Throughout he emphasizes the policy towards Soviet Russia of the Allied and Associated Powers and particularly stresses their relations to the anti...