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...Smith. Then, no piker, he had further promoted his antiWorld Court campaign by contributing smaller sums to the Deneen faction supporting Senator McKinley against Col. Smith. Finally, archangel, Mr. Insull, had helped even the Democrats by slipping $15,000 to his old friend George E. "Boss" Brennan of Chicago, who as Democratic nominee opposed both Col. Smith and Senator McKinley. Said Senator Reed: "This utility giver is apparently out to land on both feet." During the week corroborating evidence was forthcoming from many a bigwig who came beneath Senator Reed's sharp eye, sharper tongue-among them: James Simpson...
Married. Emily Josephine Smith, 24, daughter of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, to Major John Adams Warner, 39, Superintendent of State Police, at Albany. Notables attending the wedding included: George Brennan (Democratic boss of Illinois), George W. Olvany (leader of Tammany), Owen D. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Efrem Zimbalist, Assistant Secretary of the Navy T. Douglas Robinson. Through the "Papal Secretary of State, Pope Pius XI cabled his apostolic benediction for the couple. In all, 1,500 people crowded into the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and the mass said by Patrick Cardinal Hayes lasted...
Senator McKinley's "bone dry" harangues, had not availed against Colonel Smith's impassioned anti-World Court tirades. The question of whether Smith can win out over George ("Wetter-Than-Niagara") Brennan, who secured the Democratic nomination, promptly came to the fore...
...Where Senator McKinley (Dry) is fighting with Frank L. Smith (Dry) for the Republican nomination on the World Court issue; and George Brennan, the Democratic leader, whose one plank like Mr. Vare's is Wetness, hopes...
Score--Harvard 28, Yale 31. Goals from floor--Merrill 4, Fodder 3, Burns 3, O'Connell 3, Bailey 3, Filoon, Valentine, Lebourgens 2, Billhardt 2, Charlesworth. Goals from fouls--Bailey 3, O'Connell, Burns, Filoon, Merrill 2, Charlesworth 2, Fodder, Billhardt, Reeves. Referee--Osney of St. Johns. Umpire W. Brennan of Pratt Institution. Time--Four quarters of 10 minutes each...