Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republicans were surprised, Democrats pleased, non-partisans filled with admiration when, last week, the New York Herald Tribune, outstanding G. 0. P. organ in the East, published a "piece" about Nominee Smith written by Arthur Brown Ruhl, a correspondent seasoned by a quarter-century of political writing in the U. S. and abroad. It was not a "piece" calculated to help Hoover beat Smith. It was an honest effort by Writer Ruhl to report on Nominee Smith as he saw him. Excerpts: "There is something intensely real about 'Al' Smith . . . something alive, dynamic, go-ahead-reality...
...Victory is his habit?the happy warrior?Alfred E. Smith," came the last words, then the crashing applause. Puffing hard at his cigar, Alfred E. Smith left the room. He returned later and did a few waltz steps to the broadcast blare of East Side, West Side. That evening's statement-to-the-press, not strictly accurate, was: "I heard Franklin Roosevelt and the demonstration and enjoyed them both...
...Oklahoman, wondered what it is that makes Oklahomans funny. Heflin. James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, senior Senator from Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope and who loudly and repeatedly predicted that Smith would not be nominated, was speechmaking to Ku Klux Klan audiences in the East during convention week. He sent a $22 telegram urging the Alabama delegation to cast no votes for Smith at any time. All but one Alabama delegate obeyed him. He was Heffling in Towanda, Pa., when he learned that Smith was nominated. He said: "I am shocked, grieved and dumbfounded. . . . He will...
...East Williston, L. I., schoolboys played golf. From Hotchkiss School, famed institution on a hill over a lake in the northwest corner of Connecticut, came two youths, classmates, both 16, who met in the finals. Then Sidney W. Noyes Jr. beat Robert A. Moffett...
Died. Robert Bruce Mantell, 74, famed classic and romantic actor (East Lynne, Fedora, many a Shakespearean role) ; husband of four successive actresses: Marie Sheldon (1881-93*), Charlotte Behrens (1894-98), Marie Booth Russell (1900-11), Genevieve Hamper (1912-); in Atlantic Highlands, N. J. Born in Scotland, educated in Ireland, trained in England, he was first acclaimed in the U. S. when he appeared with Helena Modjeska in Romeo and Juliet...