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...handle committee vacancies the Sen ate majority maintains an unofficial group known as the Committee on Committees. This committee stalled in a deadlock when four of its members (Reed, Moses, Bingham, Deneen) voted for Senator Goff for the Finance Committee while four others (Capper, Nye, Oddie, McNary) voted for Senator La Follette. Declared Senator Reed Smoot : "I haven't said I'd resign as Chairman [of the Finance Committee] if Senator La Follette is named but I feel I should if the Committee falls into hostile hands...
...Young Turks' ranks were Allen of Kansas, Glenn of Illinois, Goldsborough of Maryland, Hastings of Delaware, Hatfield of West Virginia, Hebert of Rhode Island, Kean of New Jersey, McCulloch of Ohio, Patterson of Missouri, Townsend of Delaware, Walcott of Connecticut. From the Old Guard they had recruited Deneen of Illinois, Fess of Ohio, Goff of West Virginia, McNary of Oregon, Oddie of Nevada et al. There was even talk of unhorsing Old Guardsman Watson as Republican Leader and putting Senator McNary into his place...
...Charles R. Walgreen (drug stores); Harold Leonard Stuart (Halsey, Stuart & Co., brokers) and his socialite sister; Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick (daughter of Founder Rockefeller, onetime wife of Trustee Harold Fowler McCormick) and her bosom socialite friend Mrs. Waller Borden; onetime Governor & Mrs. Frank Orren Lowden; Senator & Mrs. Charles Samuel Deneen; Editorial Writer & Mrs. Tiffany Blake of the Tribune; Miss Caroline ("Madame X") Kirkland, society colyumist of the Tribune; and Artist Frederick Clay Bartlett and his socialite sister; Bishop & Mrs. Charles Palmerston Anderson (he is the new presiding officer of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Mr. & Mrs. Louis Eckstein (he backs...
...Deneen is too busy defeating Mrs. McCormick for his renomination...
Although promising as a new broom, Judge Swanson is taken only on approval by well-informed Chicagoans, who realize that he is politically obligated to Charles Samuel Deneen, perhaps the only U. S. Senator who ever attended a gangster's funeral. But Judge Swanson will be able to bear his political obligations lightly if he makes good his end of his alliance with the Chicago Association of Commerce, which backed Special Prosecutor Loesch and the Crime Commission...