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...charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit for the job because of business obligations to New Orleans Public Service, an Electric Bond & Share subsidiary. Republican Claude Draper, for twelve years a Wyoming Public Utilities Commissioner, made the Senate Committee snicker when he justified a 10¢ per kilowatt hour rate at Casper on the ground that the public was willing to pay for "adequate service...
...their primary nominated Robert Davis Carey, 52, onetime (1919-23) governor, over three rivals. Nominee Carey, son of Wyoming's first Senator (1890), attended The Hill School, was graduated from Yale in 1900. In the November election he will be opposed by Democratic Senatorial Nominee Harry H. Schwartz, Casper oil man. Renominated by the G. O. P. were Governor Frank Collins Emerson, Representative Vincent Carter...
...circulation department. Brother Max, too, was on the staff, more driving and hard-boiled than the other two. "Bon" and "Tarn" sent him to be business man ager of their Kansas City Post, where he remained 16 years. When the Kansas City Post was sold, Brother Max bought the Casper, Wyo. Herald, sent its circulation and advertising skyward, sold out, repeated the process with the St. Joseph, Mo. Gazette. When Henry Justin Allen wanted to sell his Wichita Beacon, Broth ers Louis and John joined Brother Max in buying 65% control for about...
...Leland Stanford'.? Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, resigned from, that body, protesting "reactionary (militaristic) policies of the national board in regard to peace, disarmament and the World Court" (TIME, April 28). Among those who resigned were the wives of Dr. David Starr Jordan and Dr. John Casper Branner. both presidents of oldtime Leland Stanford, "The Cornell of the West." Not among them was Mrs. Theodore Jesse Hoover, who remains a D. A. R., believes she and others can correct conditions better by working within the organization...
...years ago in County Cork, Ireland. Governor Emerson of Wyoming appointed him to the Warren vacancy. Since 1917 he has been Wyoming's Republican National Committeeman. Like his predecessor a wealthy sheep rancher, Senator Sullivan grew up with the West, prospered with its oil. He lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into the Wyoming law by a Republican legislature to prevent one-time (1925-27) Governor Nellie Tayloe...