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...Davis then set out on another speaking tour in West Virginia. He spoke at Charleston, Huntington, White Sulphur Springs, Hinton, Thurmond, Ronceverte, Anderson, Meadowcreek, Quinnimont, Fayettesville, Bluefield†, Fort Gay, Crumm, Williamstown, Welch, North Fork. Some remarks...
William J. Fallen, not yet 40, since the War the most daring and spectacular criminal lawyer of the New York Bar, was acquitted last week, after a dramatic trial lasting nearly two weeks before Judge McClintic (of Charleston, W. Va.), sitting in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, of the charge of bribing, in 1922, a juror in the so-called Durrell-Gregory mail-fraud case. Fallen conducted his own defense, alleged that he was the victim of a far-reaching conspiracy on the part of certain editors and reporters of the New York...
...Democratic National Convention (TIME, July 7), the 40th, the 50th, the 60th, the 70th ballot passed. All records were broken. In 1860, the Democratic Convention at Charleston had balloted 57 times before splitting over the slavery issue, after which the southern delegates withdrew and the northern wing nominated Douglas on the second ballot. In 1840, the Whig Convention at Harrisburg had taken "many, many" ballots ? nobody counted them?before nominating W. H. Harrison. But even if the number of ballots at these Conventions had been as great, the endurance record would have been less, for in the earlier days...
This new "Nickel Plate system" which has grown up so rapidly, will extend from the Atlantic seaboard ports of New York, Newport News and Norfolk, to such important inland centers as Detroit, Grand Rapids, Toledo, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Charleston and Lynchburg...
...play is the Harvard prize winner for last year in Professor George Pierce Baker's so-called Workshop. The authoress, Miss Dorothy Heyward, resident of Charleston, S. C, has a gift for dovetailing into her work pretty little tricks of playwriting prestidigitation. But the first act in the aristocratic home is dull and stuffy, and suggests the awful thought that the drawing rooms around Harvard can't be such a much...