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George F. Brennan, Democratic boss of Cook County (in which Chicago is situated), announced last week that he would be a candidate for U. S. Senator from Illinois on a wet platform. Mr. Brennan is a follower in the national arena of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. Quidnunes guess that Mr. Brennan hopes to capture a seat in the Senate while the local Republicans are falling out with one another over the World Court...
Died. William Madison Wood, 68, famed founder and retired President of the American Woolen Co., world's largest textile concern, son of a Portugese sea cook named Jacintho (who later took the name William Jason Wood), at Daytona Beach, Fla., by shooting himself through the mouth. He had long had ill health...
Born in Connecticut in 1850, Dr. Lanman is a lineal descendant of Francis Cook and John Alden of the Mayflower, and of "Brother Jonathan" governor of Conecticut in the early Colonial period. He graduated from Yale in 1871, and studied abroad in Berlin, Tubingen, and Leipzig during the succeeding three years. Later he received honorary degrees from Yale and the University of Aberdeen. From 1876 until he came to the University four years later, Professor Lanman was Turnbull lecturer on the poetry of India at Johns Hopkins University...
...though Mr. Cook's regime was typified by the Lampoon at hand. We have bull-baitings and yokel-bumpings aplenty to testify to the enterprise characteristic to the board for the last year. Certainly no issue of any college humorous publication ever attracted the nation-wide attention secured by the famous suppressed edition of last spring, nor were the gendarmerie of any community ever so satisfactorily exposed as were the copys of Cambridge upon that memorable occasion...
...play is set on a tugboat with Miss Arnold playing the cook's worthy wife. One of the deck hands is a shy, sensitive youth who falls in love with her. She educates him a bit and packs him off to the safety of dry land and a small town. Similarity to the plot of Candida was noted. The young man was played adroitly by Rex Cherryman, newcomer...