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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national personnel, redheaded Governor Moody was not without constructive ideas about his party's future. In the same breath with which he condemned Mr. Raskob, he hailed the man to whom Governor Smith's, political potency had obviously passed. Said he: "The tremendous vote given Franklin D. Roosevelt by the citizens of the Empire State [for Governor] attest the esteem in which he is held by the people of the State and mark for him a continuous and growing place among the leaders of thought in national affairs...
Engaged. Allen A. Ryan Jr., Manhattan broker, grandson of famed Manhattan financier Thomas Fortune Ryan (public utilities, Congo diamonds, railways, coal, tobacco, onetime officer or director in more than 30 corporations), to Janet Newbold of Washington, D...
Died. Mrs. Alpha May Eldredge Smoot, 65, wife of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; after two years' illness; in Washington, D...
...title: The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893 (Lippincott, $1.50). Little known it still is that President Cleveland ("Grover the Good") developed cancer of his left jaw while he was stoutly persuading Congress to demonetize silver.* Dr. Keen, Dr. John Frederick Erdmann and the late Dr. Joseph D. Bryant (Cleveland's medical attendant and intimate friend) cut out the diseased bone during two operations. An artificial jaw of vulcanized rubber supported the cheek in the natural position and prevented it from falling in. So artful were the operations and so secretly done that the country, panicky over money...
William Gibbs McAdoo did not attend the wedding of his daughter, Sally, in Washington, D. C., last week, because he was suffering, in Los Angeles, an attack of influenza...