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Onetime (1915-31) Republican Congressman Edward Everett Denison of Illinois was last week put on trial in the District of Columbia Supreme Court for liquor possession. In December 1928 heavy-jowled Mr. Denison returned to New York from a junket to Panama. Under his freedom-of-the-port privilege he brought in much luggage without inspection. Several weeks later Prohibition agents visited his quarters in the House Office Building, found an Army locker trunk marked "B. B. Dawson." "E. D. Denison" might easily be altered to "B. B. Dawson," but Congressman Denison in- sisted the trunk...
...court last week the Government presented its case. Then Mr. Denison, one of whose three attorneys was Everett Sanders, onetime Indiana Congressman, onetime secretary to President Coolidge, took the stand, told his story: a mix-up had occurred on the steamship dock in New York. Mr. Denison had brought home a trunkful of china and glassware as gifts to relatives. By mistake this trunk went to his nephew in St. Louis and the liquor-laden trunk (presumably belonging to the nephew though Mr. Denison did not say so) arrived at the House Office Building. Declared Defendant Denison: "I never bought...
...underlings included. Also he made many a friend, none more loyal than his Reporter Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. Author Zona Gale worked for "C. C."; so did Barton Currie (later editor of Country Gentleman, Ladies' Home Journal, World's Work), Will Inglis (secretary to John D. Rockefeller), Lindsay Denison (still a crack staffman on the Evening World), and Ralph Pulitzer, now the World's publisher. Joseph Pulitzer Jr., now publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was fired by C. C. "for laziness...
...greatest part of the service is performed in settlement houses such as Lincoln House, North Bennet Street Industrial School, Denison House, Cambridge Y. M. C. A., Emmanuel Memorial House, and the Ellis Memorial. Here the volunteers act as lenders in the activities of the boys' organizations, refereeing or coaching basketball, aiding in naturalization work, teaching arithmetic, english, history, and geography. The "home librarios" form another of the most important phases of the work. Certain books are read by the members of the boys' clubs who write short reports telling whether they liked or disliked reading. General discussions follow...
...Illinois 6; Indiana 6; Iowa 1; Kentucky 6; Maryland 2; Missouri 6; Nebraska 2; New Jersey i; New Mexico 1; North Carolina 2; Ohio 6; Oklahoma 2; Oregan 1; Pennsylvania 3; Virginia 2; West Virginia 1; Wisconsin 1. They had routed two Republican Drys (Ohio's Morgan, Illinois' Denison) who had been caught transporting liquor. They had ousted Maryland's Zihlman, known as the "Mayor of Washington" because he was chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee. They had defeated Indiana's Elliott who, as chairman of the Public Buildings & Grounds Committee, helped put through legislation to beautify Washington...