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...pioneer Wyoming lawyer, Willis Van Devanter was an ardent horseman and grizzly-hunter. At 77, he plays an occasional round of golf, goes duck-shooting several times each season. One of these forays occurred one afternoon early last month. He and his shooting crony, Rev. ZëBarney Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, went down to the Deep Hole Point Club, a rough wooden shack on the "Old Dawdon Place" near Occoquan, Va., 35 mi. southwest of Washington...
...give its chairman could be interpreted in either or both of two ways: 1) as a vote of confidence in John Hamilton; 2) as proof that no one else wanted his job. That job is not merely to reorganize a shattered Party. It is also, as Treasurer Charles B. ("Barney") Goodspeed explained last week, to wipe out a campaign deficit of $901,501.61, owing mostly for billboard and radio advertising. Chairman Hamilton, reported Treasurer Goodspeed. spent $67,000 less than the budgeted $6,300,000. But the Committee's receipts, like its candidate's votes, had fallen...
Married. Mrs. Clara Le Baron Morgan Warren, widow of Wyoming's Senator Francis Emroy Warren, mother-in-law of General John Joseph Pershing; and Albert Wells Russel, retired Cleveland businessman; by Rev. ZëBarney Thorne Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate; in the Washington apartment of Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court...
Parallel to Walter Briggs's rise in Detroit baseball have been his fortunes in the manufacture of automobile bodies. The same year he was lucky in getting World Series tickets he joined B. F. Everitt Co., pioneer auto trimmer. When Owner Barney Everitt and two friends started the E. M. F. Co. (motor cars), Mr. Everitt did not think it altogether ethical to run a competing business of his own, so he made a deal with his able employe, Walter Briggs, to take over the trimming plant, which was soon called Briggs Mfg. Co. It went on painting...
...tall (6 ft.), graceful Yaleman (1922) of 37-John C. Wilson of Trenton, N. J. After college he escaped briefly from Wall Street when given a small part in a road company of Polly Preferred. Back in trade, he got Noel Coward's brokerage account for Chas. D. Barney & Co. in 1925. Now the Coward business manager and producer, his name appeared last week as entrepreneur of a whole festival of Coward plays which arrived in Manhattan. Actor-Author Coward had written them, directed them, scored them for music, provided in each a part for himself and Gertrude Lawrence...