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Kentucky. At Pineville a deputy sheriff was killed, a miner stabbed during the voting. Impounded by law for 24 hours, the ballots indicated that Democratic Senator Alben W. Barkley, a Wet convert had won renomination over George B. Martin, oldtime Wet, thus breaking a 30-year jinx against Kentucky Senators succeeding themselves. The State's failure to reduce its House seats from eleven to nine required the nomination of all Congressional candidates as Representatives-at-large...
Pleased Treasury officials rubbed their hands over long tables of figures last week, then called in the Press for an announcement. The first, most important step was over in the Government's spectacular campaign to convert Britain's 5% War Loan Bonds (largest single block of the national debt) to new 3½% bonds Out of a total of ?2,086,000,000 outstanding, ?1,500,000,000, or something over 70%, has been voluntarily converted. Over 75% of the individual bondholders, 2,036,700 out of 2,600,000, have come forward with applications. Only...
...Died. Paris Eugene Singer, 66, famed sportsman and Florida realtor (Palm Beach Everglades Club); of heart disease; in London. Intimate friend of Dancer Isadora Duncan (he was the "Lohengrin" of her autobiography), he and Otto Hermann Kahn once planned to take Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and convert it into a temple of art and music for her. He inherited his fortune from his father, Isaac Merritt Singer, manufacturer of sewing machines. Died. William ("Billy") Jerome, 67. music publisher and composer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Among his hits: "Bedelia," "That Old Irish Mother of Mine," "Row, Row, Row," "Chinatown...
While elated Wets hailed Mr. Rockefeller into their fold as a convert and a damaging loss to the opposition, Drys damned him for a turncoat. "Unfortunately for your conception and interpretation you live in a stupefying, benumbing atmosphere of New York,"* wrote one-time Congressional Dry-leader William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw from the corn liquor country of Georgia. "Dr. Butler is an unsafe mentor for a high class, unsophisticated Christian like...
Still another Wet convert of the week was Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, who declared: "My own views have been reversed. The road toward greater temperance is through repeal. . . . The experiment has resulted in failure...