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...vote to those who accept State or municipal charity. These gave Senator Walsh a chance to say that the Republicans, "having brought misfortune to many people ... are now penalizing them for this mis fortune." The 350 Lewiston "paupers" saw their onetime mayor, Lawyer Louis J. Brann, elected governor over Burleigh Martin, president of the State Senate, by some 2,000 votes. Maine's former Governor Ralph Owen Brewster received his third big political setback. Running for Congress, he was beaten by John G. Utterback, onetime mayor of Bangor, by about 2,000 votes. Republican John Edward Nelson, ten years...
Neighbor Rosicky, when Doctor Burleigh told him he had a bad heart, said, "So? No, I guess my heart was always pretty good. I got a little asthma, maybe." A Bohemian farmer with Rosicky's resilient enjoyment of life was not likely to be much worried but Rosickv's wife made him sit in the kitchen and take life easy while his sons did the plowing. Rosicky's long habit of friendliness finally got the better of him. He thought the thistles ought to be cleared out of the alfalfa field on his son Rudolph's farm...
...more in the tone of Author Gather's earlier books?My Antonia, A Lost Lady. With the rest of Author Gather's work, they share the charm of an artistry that is warm, simple and intelligent, the charm of a writer who feels about her characters somewhat as Doctor Burleigh feels about old Neighbor Rosicky: "The doctor picked up his stethoscope and frowned at it. ... He wished it had been telling tales about some other man's heart, some old man who didn't look the Doctor in the eye so knowingly, or hold out such a warm brown hand...
...trading Fielder Hack Wilson and a young pitcher named Bud Teachout to the Cardinals, the Cubs last winter got Burleigh Grimes, famed spitball pitcher who pitched a two-hit game in last year's World Series. The success of the Giants, according to Manager McGraw, depended largely on the performance of Second Baseman Hughie Critz who hurt his throwing arm early last season and may not yet be fully recovered. The Giants new left fielder, Len Koenecke, bought for $75,000 from Indianapolis, last week made two two-base hits in a game against the Cubs...
...more than Babe Ruth. For doing so he got $33,000 salary in the season of 1931, in which the less lively ball adopted by the National League helped his batting average drop to .261. Last autumn the Cubs traded squatty Wilson to the St. Louis Cardinals for Pitcher Burleigh Grimes and minor considerations. The Cardinals offered to pay him $7,500 for 1932. When Wilson said he wanted more, the Cardinals last week arranged a deal whereby they acquired an unspecified sum of money and a rookie outfielder while the Brooklyn Robins acquired recalcitrant Wilson and the problem...