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Chairman Simeon Davison Fess of the Republican National Committee, onetime professor of American History, last week announced: "President Hoover in two years has had more bad breaks than any other man in the history of the United States, and there is no man who wants to do more for his country than our President...
Senator Simeon Davison Fess, National Republican Chairman: "No uniform pattern ... a crazy-quilt...
Ohio. A particularly. hard blow to President Hoover, the Republican National Committee and the Anti-Saloon League of America was the defeat of Dry Republican Senator (by appointment) Roscoe Conkling McCulloch by Wet Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley. Senator McCulloch's fuss-budgety little colleague, Senator Simeon Davison Fess dropped his duties as G. O. P. national chairman to campaign himself hoarse for the Republican ticket. Senator-elect Bulkley (whose friends already talk loudly of him as a presidential possibility) won urban votes largely by a demand for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. His Wetness pulled his Dry friend George...
Muriel McCormick, daughter of harvester-making Harold McCormick of Chicago, granddaughter of John Davison Rockefeller, received a charter to operate Palm Beach Playhouse Inc. "to encourage a taste for music, literature and the arts through presentation of dramatic or operatic representations" at Palm Beach...
...largest single bronze casting in the country, on the campus of Columbia University. In 1919 the entire nation became Barnard-conscious when a replica of his great gaunt statue of Abraham Lincoln was erected in Manchester, England, to celebrate a century of British-U. S. peace. In 1925 John Davison Rockefeller Jr. bought for $600,000 The Cloisters, the beautifully arranged collection of Gothic sculpture and woodcarving which Sculptor Barnard had assembled. Mr. Rockefeller presented it as an annex to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Billings estate on God's Thumb, the rambling stone stable of which Sculptor Barnard...