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...Deal distasteful was confirmed by results: in New England, where if anywhere in the U. S. the middle class is in a majority, Republicans swept every State. In New Jersey the conscience of the middle class as much as the anger of Labor helped to re-elect Republican Senator Barbour over a Democrat backed by hard-boiled Boss Hague of Jersey City...
Asked what he thought of new Jersey's repudiation of Mayer Hague's candidate when it elected Warren Barbour to the Senate the professor said: "Regardless of party affiliations, thoughtful voters must rejoice at the heavy blow dealt the Hague leadership...
...Franklin Roosevelt's emissary thereupon inserted into his prepared speech a hearty Roosevelt endorsement of Candidate Ely, predicted his election and added: "I know that the President will be thrilled when I give him that report." Opposing Democrat Ely is able, hulking, frizz-haired William Warren Barbour, a Republican who very nearly fits the "liberal" definition of Franklin Roosevelt and who was beaten out of his Senate seat in 1936 by William H. Smathers. Until Boss Hague and Boss Roosevelt joined forces, it had looked unlikely that Democrat Ely could head off ex-Senator Barbour in his comeback. Even...
Thirsting for travel, David Fairchild obtained a research post at Naples supported by the Smithsonian Institution. On board ship he met a rich, mundivagant Chicagoan named Barbour Lathrop, who became a friend and patron, financed a trip for Fairchild to Java. This was the beginning of travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from...
Additional members of the bureau include I. William Auerback 3L, Morton M. Barbour 3L, Robert S. Berger 3L, Alexander Black, Jr. 3L, Kimball B. deVoy 3L, John Fishwick 2L, Bennet Frankel 2L, Edward T. Gignoux, 2L, James T. Hill, Jr., 2L, William R. Hurlbert...