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...every retired Californian over 50 is the golden promise which fortnight ago won Sheridan Downey the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate over Senator William G. McAdoo. The scheme would add an estimated $1,315,766,400 to the State budget. How Californian capital cottons to this benign idea of legislating Utopia became apparent last week when California offered for sale for unemployment relief $2,000,000 worth of registered warrants payable in February. Such State borrowings as recently as August 12 were easily sold at .75%. Last week there was but one bid, from Bankamerica...
John F. Curry, 64, was big boss of Tammany Hall from 1929 to 1934. White haired and benign, the old Tammanyite walked to the stand without a glance at powerful old Tammanyite Hines. who helped to make him boss and later led the movement to oust him. Prosecutor Dewey had been trying to show that one of Hines's great services to the numbers racketeers was his ability to get troublesome detectives transferred to other duties. He asked Mr. Curry...
Democratic nominee for Governor was white-crowned, benign-looking, Danish-blooded Culbert L. Olson of Los Angeles...
...quiet of his summer retreat at St. Josephs. N. Y.. death (of coronary thrombosis) came last week to Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, 70. Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York since 1919, Prince of the Church since 1924, benign and white-haired "Cardinal of Charities" to the 1,000,000 Catholics of the world's richest archdiocese. Forty-six years a priest, but never pastor of a church. Cardinal Hayes was the first native-born shepherd (which he liked to call himself) of New York. His steady rise in the church he owed to scholarship, administrative ability...
...Demagoguery." Surrounded by guards, a big, benign, mustached man slipped into the Great Hall of Cooper Union in Manhattan, modestly took his place on the platform before an audience of 1,000, smiled and applauded graduates' speeches. At length Trustee J. Pierpont Morgan rose, picked up a pile of diplomas, handed one to each of the 128 graduates, gave him a quick handshake, a smile and a bow. When President Gano Dunn asked him to speak, Banker Morgan bowed to the applause, smiled, shook his head...