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...Committee. Most famed among the three committeemen is Abbott Lawrence Lowell, since 1909 President of Harvard University. Before entering the Harvard Faculty he had 17 years' experience in the practice of law, has made the science of government his specialty and has written two books on the character and potency of public opinion...
Madison Sayles of Belmont, led the group of fifteen nominees, and accordingly will serve as Chairman of the Committee. The other elected committeemen are. Ellsworth Charles Haggerty of Allston; William Partridge Ellison of Newton; Bayard Livingston Kilgour of Cincinnati, Ohio; Carl Gustave Ture Lundell of Dorchester; John New bold Robinson of Wakefield, Rhode Island, and Joseph Delano Hitch Jr. of Denver, Colorado...
...week ended, subpoenas were being issued or prepared by Senator Reed to call as witnesses officials of the Wet forces, Ku Klux Klan and churches in Pennsylvania. While Senator Reed thus added to his laurels as an investigator, one of his committeemen, Senator LaFollette, drafted and proposed a resolution to bar from the Senate any man sent there at a cost of $25,000 or more. Senator Neely, also on the committee, worked over a similar resolution setting the figure...
Postal Rates. When the last Congress increased and modified postal rates (to get funds for increasing the salaries for postal employes) it was announced that the rates were temporary and would be altered again at this session of Congress. Instead the problem was postponed another year, since the committeemen who had to face it declared they needed more time...
...Times' questionnaire has thus proved that the majority of Democratic Committeemen willing to express an opinion do not care to have their party repeat its previous performance. To students who care to view the questionnaire in a detached manner, it exhibits man, the political animal, re-acting unscientifically on the basis of a single instance. Even those who do not react stand pat only on the ground that they have not been sufficiently horrified...