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...Freddy Bigelow's record breaking win in the University ski race last Sunday, points to a potent team for this season. Only Wendell M. Hastings and Henry S. Parker, Jr. are gone through graduation, and the present contenders have certainly not lost their touch...
Born in Elkhart, Ind. 66 years ago, Herbert Bigelow went to Cincinnati in 1896 as pastor of the Vine Street Church...
...mingling on the walls of his church the sayings of Henry George, Count Tolstoy and Jesus Christ. Soon thereafter he leased the church for 99 years to a theatre company, with the result that the old Vine Street Church is now a burlesque house. This deal resulted in Preacher Bigelow's being ousted from the Congregational ministry. But seldom did a season pass that Herbert Bigelow did not make some sort of spectacular news for Cincinnati papers. In 1912 he was president of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, sponsoring initiative, referendum, municipal home rule. In 1917, while speaking across...
Last week Councilman Bigelow produced a deadlock by refusing to vote either with the four Charterites or with the four Republicans for a mayor, ostensibly because he wanted Cincinnati to get its power from TVA. In vain did the city manager explain that TVA would not be ready to deliver power for five years, that the city already had contracts with private power companies which the electorate had apparently considered satisfactory. To this Councilman Bigelow replied: "It's not a struggle over rates in Cincinnati, but an important section in the great fight of President Roosevelt...
Actually, charged popular, three-time Charterite Mayor Russell Wilson, the reward demanded by Councilman Bigelow for supporting the charter was three important city jobs for his friends. Rather than pay that price, Chartermen would apparently dicker with the Republicans. Meantime, Councilman Bigelow blithely observed: "Perhaps we may never get a Mayor. What's the difference? A Mayor is only a ceremonial figure, a sort of political parsley to adorn ceremonial dinners. Why shouldn't the Councilmen take turns at this sort of punishment, eating meals without money and making speeches without meaning...