Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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April 24--Reverend Rees Edgar Tolloss, President of Wittenberg College, Springfield. Ohio...
...This was, of course, a recess appointment. Two other members of the Commission serving under the same sanction are Sherman J. Lowell, Fredonia, N. Y. and Edgar B. Brossard of Utah, who do not draw pay because they are unconfirmed by Congress. Mr. Glassie, however, will be salaried because of his appointment when Congress is not in session...
Courageous, chivalrous, when he ran for the first of his three Congressional terms seven years ago he talked from a wheel chair, said of his opponent: "No knightlier spirit than Edgar Watkins ever went to worthy combat or shivered lance at Camelot or Stirling." Himself lost in Camelot's misty lore, Knight Upshaw may often think in terms of questing a Holy Grail...
This summer he campaigned again for a return triumphant, en revanche, on no particular issue save that he would very much like to be elected in place of present able Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton") Smith, who naturally desires to retain his seat. Speaker Edgar A. Brown of the South Carolina House of Representatives likewise...
...April, Senator William B. McKinley was defeated for renomination in the Illinois primaries ostensibly because he had voted for the World Court. Now, in California and Wisconsin, Senators Shortridge and Lenroot are having trouble in the primary campaigns for the same reason. Out in Idaho, where Senator William Edgar Borah is master, few men can back the World Court and remain politically potent. Frank R. Gooding, 59, junior Senator from Idaho, had the precocity to vote for U. S. entrance. Last week he reversed his international policy, was renominated by the Republican convention* for Senator. Said he: "I hoped this...