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Northern Baptists. Most famed president the Northern Baptist Convention ever elected was Charles Evans Hughes (1908). Last week in Philadelphia's big Convention Hall met 5,000 Northern Baptist dele gates under the presidency of Herbert B. Clark, president of the North Adams (Mass.) National Bank, director in a half-dozen New England firms. Big, bald Banker Clark traveled 45,000 miles during his year in office, acquired a new pulpit manner speaking in hundreds of churches. Member of a rich Berkshire family (his father gave his old pastor $25,000 when that man of God retired), Banker Clark...
There will be three general sessions of the entire Conference. The opening event will be a luncheon for all dele- gates and guests the first day of the Conference. That night after the first round table sessions, a banquet will be held, and a buffet lunch the next noon will also bring all members of the Conference together. The plenary session will be addressed by a speaker taking as his subject the title of the Conference "The Role of Government in the National Economy...
Last week Candidate Taft's eight dele-gates-at-large pulled nearly 2-to-1 ahead of Candidate Borah's in the Statewide vote. Senator Borah elected two district delegates in Akron, one each in Cleveland, Youngstown and Steubenville. Mr. Taft carried off the other 47 of Ohio's 52 votes. In fact the earnest, high-minded lawyer-son of the 27th President of the U. S. made such a surprisingly good showing that romantic journalists began to circulate rumors to the effect that Mr. Taft, instead of being just a hopeless Favorite Son, might make...
...Pennsylvania three striking dele gates were set upon and beaten by loyal employes. Forty cooks at the august Plaza tossed aside their puffed caps and aprons...
Thereafter the business of the 20th Republican National Convention terminated briefly. Charles Irwin, an old news paperman, seasoned in U. S. politics since the forgotten days when young Boies Penrose was a Libertarian, watched the dele gates file out of the Stadium. "The Dutch," commented he, "have taken Holland...