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Later President Hoover took Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh to his Rapidan camp. Other guests: Assistant Secretary of War Davison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Young. Talk topic: aviation, commercial and military. Col. Lindbergh played at throwing darts with his wife, watched others putt around a Tom Thumb golf course built by Marines near the President's camp...
...Norris, a Dry, will face Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, Wet conservative Democrat, once (1911-23) potent Senator from Nebraska who vainly led the Wilson fight for Senate ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. Would the national G.O. P. organization in Washington support Senator Norris as the party nominee? Senator Simeon Davison Fess, Republican National Committee chairman, said it would. The White House, in a well-muffled voice, said it would not, spoke of Senator Norris as a "traitor." To oppose Republican Governor Arthur J. Weaver, renominated. Democrats chose Charles Wayland ("Brother") Bryan, onetime (1923-25) Governor of Nebraska...
Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio, brand-new chairman of the Republican National Committee, last week tied the G. O. P. up tight to Prohibition. Meanwhile the Democratic party seemed to grow wetter and wetter...
With Mr. Huston safely out, the G. O. P. committee proceeded to the selection of a new chairman. As prearranged with President Hoover's active approval, Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio was chosen to head the national committee. As not prearranged this was done on a permanent basis, for Mr. Fess refused to take the job temporarily. Ousted Mr. Huston was reported as saying at once: "Enter the Ohio Gang again." If uttered, this bitter remark was aimed at Walter Folger Brown of Toledo as much as at Simeon Davison Fess. The latter was never a member...
...Collections. Noteworthy are the Persian treasures of these U. S. collectors: John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (rugs), the Metropolitan Museum's Havemeyer collection (most extensive and varied-glassware, pottery, earthenware bowls), Horace Havemeyer (rugs, pottery), Mortimer Schiff (pottery, including a famed Rhages bowl) and lesser collections owned by Charles B. Hoyt, George Pratt, Walter P. Chrysler, Mrs. William H. Moore, Mrs. Rainey Rogers...