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Early in the session, Representative Barbour of California introduced a bill, based on the 1920 census, to leave unchanged the present total membership of the House, 435, but to bring the apportionment up to date...
...bill having been killed by the committee to which it was referred, Mr. Barbour last week moved to bring the bill to a vote on the floor of the House on the ground of "high Constitutional privilege...
...Reichenbach is particularly proud of having raised, on a wager, a certain Nina Barbour from sweatshop to stage within ten days. He engaged two actresses (whose publicity he handled) to halt their car, as if with motor trouble, before a dingy building on the Bowery. As pre-arranged, a sweet voice sounded from a window, singing "On the Banks of the Wabash". Also as pre-arranged, the two actresses stepped from their car, stared up at the window, and, before the crowd thus attracted, entered the building and brought Nina Barbour out to notoriety and motored her away...
Everett Addoms, Jr., Exeter; Abraham Martin Aloff, English High School; George Alpert, Boston Latin School; Warren Wilcox Anthony, Andover; Charles Francis Ayers, Jr., Northeastern Preparatory School, Boston; Talbot Baker, Milton Academy; Nathan Spencer Barnes, Thacher School, Ojai Valley, Cal.;. Philip Barbour Bennett, Riverdale Country School, Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y.; Harold Berliner, Boston Latin School; Clarence Edwin Brown, Cambridge High and Latin School; Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Jr., Cambridge High and Latin School; Dean Chamberlin, Exeter; Grover Arvel Chenoweth, Boston Latin School; Albert Goodwill Churchill, Browne and Nichols School; Henry Ives Cobb, 3d., Groton...
...from a long line of peers, he says: "And I've leaped from a few docks myself"; when asked if he knows the King's English, he replies that so was the Prince of Wales. There is a Victor Herbert waltz; Dorothy McNulty dances with graceful velocity; Miss Joyce Barbour contributes a patrician presence; Vannessi, the stupidest-looking beautiful woman on the U. S. stage, rolls her eyes...