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...Chipper Minister of Agriculture Jimmy Gardiner was the only one who stayed in the fight to the end. All through the convention his 50 henchmen worked to collar support for him, kept telling themselves that "anything could happen." From his Chateau Laurier suite Jimmy Gardiner extended western hospitality to all comers, nipped down to the lobby at strategic moments. He threw a cocktail party for the press, a luncheon for western delegates. Gardiner got 323 votes. Said he sadly: "This isn't like an ordinary election campaign where you can take your opponent apart...
John J. Pershing's adjutant, pooh-poohing a radio report that the 87-year-old general was critically ill, described the patient as "chipper and cheerful...
Died. Douglas H. Cooke, 61, onetime publisher of Leslie's Weekly, Judge, and the old Life magazine; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In the '20s, he printed the chipper early works of Robert Benchley and John Held Jr., turned conservative when the magazines and the era folded, became a publisher of hospital magazines...
There was still plenty of confusion in the newspaper offices and mistakes in the papers. "Making a correction is such an involved process," said one editor, "that we don't do it unless it's libel." But the publishers were chipper enough to think they would win their fight for a signed contract, instead of the unilateral conditions of employment - and closed shop -the I.T.U. had tried to impose...
...second team, however, there was a large sprinkling of this year's opposition. Among those chosen was Fred "Bull" Nadherny, who accompanies the Chipper in the backfield...