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Rebuffed by Borah, the convention next nominated for the Presidency redheaded, wrinkled-faced William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, spry cripple, onetime (1919-27) Representative from Georgia. Frank Stewart Regan of Illinois was given the Vice-Presidential nomination. An ardent prohibitor but also a humble man, Nominee Upshaw announced that he would retire if Senator Borah or some other "outstanding figure" would agree to head a third party Dry ticket...
Finally, Republican delegates will pursue their labored antics in as gloomy an aura of depression as their party has yet experienced. Aside from an ardent discipleship of Mellon methods which led managers to underestimate by $35,000 the total cost of the jamboree, it has become painfully necessary to lower the price of mezzannine seats from $100 to $40. Moreover, by chartering the arena for the weeks following the Republican convention, Democratic leaders have managed to chalk up to the G. O. P. ledger some $15,000 worth of staging and decoration. The show...
...amplify his objections he called a camp stenographer and dictated a 2,500-word letter to Herbert Samuel Crocker, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, ardent advocate of a big public works program.* A courier sped the letter to Washington where Secretary of the Treasury Mills checked it over for fiscal facts and figures. Then it was mimeographed and passed out to newsmen at the White House...
...most conducive to good living and longevity (he is 70) are in his opinion golf, fishing, shooting. He golfs at Old Elm, top-notch Lake Forest, Ill. club for men only. He fishes at Coleman Lake Club (Wisconsin), shoots ducks at the Sanganois Club (Illinois River). He is an ardent Prohibitionist for medical and scientific reasons. He takes himself very seriously...
...fetish of proficiency in diverse activities. Professor Gushing collects everything which can be assembled, sorted and classified. (Harvard's Warren Anatomical Museum has his series of War helmets, a piece of barbed wire he fetched from a barricade.) Professor Penfield once coached the Princeton football team, is an ardent tennis player, farms extensive acreage near Lake Memphremagog, Quebec, likes good literature, good music. Best of all he enjoys a case of epilepsy...