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Bing's blunders are as celebrated as his successes. He made most of Michigan mad with an abusive obituary of the respected Senator James Couzens. He ran a frontpage article accusing Radio Father Charles E. Coughlin of "congenital inability to tell the truth," and Father Coughlin filed a $4...
Like his old father before him, who was Queen Victoria's favorite walker, Bert Couzens cannot keep his feet still. At eleven, he strolled from London to Colchester (about 50 miles); three years later he was fired from his chemist's apprentice job for walking off one day...
One-track-minded Bert Couzens, who has never married, is now working up to a 2,500-mile walk. Says he: "Women and athletics don't mix."
When Michigan's Senator James Couzens died in 1936, leaving $34,000,000, the title "richest man in Congress" passed to Old-Guard Republican Congressman Chester Castle Bolton of Lyndhurst (suburban Cleveland), Ohio, son of the late, great Mark Hanna's business partner. Mr. Bolton's personal...
There was soon some criticism of Banker Cummings. In his spare time he was Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Another full time job he held down (at $15,000) was as trustee of the bankrupt Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway. He was also a co-receiver for Chicago...